Is viscose good quality?

[EleanorLavish]

I've bought this from Hush. Don't usually buy from them as bought years ago and thought quality wasn't fab.
Anyway, shirt has arrived, was £65. It's a bit see through, and doesn't feel good quality. It is 100% viscose, does that last well?
I would wash according to instructions,30degree delicate.
I have a shirt from Warehouse that was £20 and feels much sturdier, this feels like it will fall apart!

Viscose is very variable and can be prone to shrinking which I find is the main problem with it.

Send it back.

You could probably get similar in viscose from Next for about £25, it's very overpriced.

Hmm, as I thought.
Thanks.

Hush are taking the piss

I’ve seen people wearing their knitwear and it looks really thin too.
But I bought these and they’re lovely.

Good quality viscose is good quality. I've had a terrible t-shirt from h&m, bobbly and shrunk and I've had excellent dresses from Masai, drapes beautifully, lasts well. Just like other fabrics there's good and bad

Viscose can be lovely, I have a few nice viscose tops and they hang beautifully.

I actually really like viscose but no way would I pay that much for what you described (or anything viscose)

I fell for the Hush hype on here once... Never again!

I bought a top about 3 years ago 100% viscose from a cheap shop, cost £10.99, still as good as when I bought it, and it's lovely.
I have compliments every time I wear it.

I think these shops are over priced and look for idiots willing to pay the excessive prices.
Those slider silver shoes aren't any different than high street shops like New look where they are about £15. If you have money to waste there's Hush, Boden, white co, etc.

I find that viscose wrinkles quite a bit.

I picked up some trousers the other day, in a rush and didn't read the label, took them out of the bag and looked and they are very thin, checked the label - viscose.

Those slider silver shoes aren't any different than high street shops like New look where they are about £15.

Hmm. My first pair of Birkies I got in 1994 and I wore them for over 20 years, they were only disposed of because you could no longer tell what colour they were originally, they were still perfectly useable. I then bought cheap copies that fell apart in a couple of years. I went back to Birkies. Buy cheap, buy twice.

Having said that Hush quality is really variable. Their jersey dresses are good, and their jeans and shoes (who are made by other brands). But their t-shirts and jumpers are famously poor quality for the price and I don't have experience of their shirts. But if it already seems thin I'd send it back.

The only thing I buy from Hush is their joggers and that's because they're the only ones with a zip at the ankle. Hush generally is horribly overpriced.

Hush are taking the piss

Funny you should say that pop as I have a top I once picked up in F&F (one of those ‘finds’ that just hits the mark), and it is very, very similar to the Hush one. I’ve worn the F&F one quite a bit but it’s too big now I’ve lost weight so thought I’ll get something similar but better quality.
But it isn’t better quality. It’s the same top but about £50 more than the F&F one!

Viscose is made from wood pulp with lots of nasty chemicals.

If it feels thin and cheap, then it is thin and cheap. Viscose is cheap to produce.

However, it is the weight of the fabric that’s important. Viscose can be heavy and high quality.

I teach Textile Science. I ordered some trousers from Hush once. They were the thinnest cheapest crappyist fabric ever. And cost about 80 quid. They were horrible and went straight back. Primark could have knocked them out for 8quid each. They were just shit

The trouble is of course that we are no longer prepared to pay what clotgrs actually cost to make ethically. Look at Toast, they make high quality clothes in Europe from natural fabrics. It's what we all keep saying we want. But the only items that are

I don’t think it is that. I think retailers have found out that they can get a high price for crap quality, particularly for women. Men’s wear shirts are usually cotton and don’t cost anywhere near what a women’s blouse costs.

Shops like Fatface and White Stuff, although not my type of shops manage. So do Cos and Arket.

Absolutely!
I have bought some lovely 100% cotton jumpers in the men's dept at Tesco, as I'm tall.The women's dept doesn't do anything but poor quality crap man made jumpers.
I tend to buy quite a bit of more expensive clothing/shoes/jewellery that will keep, and mix in high street bits.
£65 for a cheap,poorly made top is the issue I have.

Whatever you may think of the clothes in Cos, the difference in quality is striking. But I do find myself wondering how they can afford to do it for those prices.

Mens' clothes are often better quality but then they're less trend led so I imagine they can afford to produce stuff in much bigger numbers, knowing it's not going to date.

As for viscose, I've had some that's been great and some that was shite. But then the same is true of cotton, silk and linen.

I have been gobsmacked for a couple of years on here at the love for Hush. The website to me is like ploughing through the Next online website, all cheap looking patterns. (And then Per Una gets mocked!)
I did like the look of a red shirt dress last summer but when I saw it in store it was foul.
Viscose shrinks but if you iron it it grows again my best t shirts are m&S viscose mix, hang really nicely.

I bought a dress in Hobbs recently that was was viscose - lovely thick fabric and draped really well. I went down a size as it was quite roomy but really regretted it as it shrank just enough when I washed it to make it not as wearable as I'd intended (a tiny bit too short).

I really regret not taking it back or buying the larger size, and I'd definitely think carefully before buying viscose again.