fiber geek watching dystopias

[untonuggan]

ok ok

so i'm really liking the 100 now I've gotten past the beginning, and actually now I've gotten to canon f/f pairings i'm ON BOARD.

however the thing that is bothering me with a lot of these dystopias is FIBER.

i get the whole "let us wear grungy black clothes for a cool look" thing costumers are going for, I really do.

but I feel like if no one has figured out how to manufacture new fibers (which everyone is wearing machine made stuff, so yeah?), then it should be WE MUST CONSERVE THIS AT ALL COSTS, not "rip it up all the time because arrows and pulling them out and blood and stuff."

do they have some secret stash of dead peoples' clothes somewhere from when the bomb went off? that have lasted 100 years? seriously?

has no one remembered how to mend things with a sewing needle and thread?

because otherwise, seriously, stop ripping all the fabric into gritty pieces.

(seriously, there's no *patching* on anyones' clothes in any of the societies, which you think someone would have come up with somewhere.)

./fiber rant

(i know it's tv, but. still! some dystopia somewhere should think of the clooooooooooooooooothes)

Comments

[maramcreates]

Perhaps the radiation has caused the textiles to grow on trees?

I agree with your assessment though. Clothing is either a valued resource (and should thus be conserved), or it is not (and we should be seeing a whole lot more skin than we are).

Still, to make it fit canon-wise, I wonder if perhaps the material used could be of a serious synthetic that degrades very slowly? That could work, at least for a while.

[spiralsheep]

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[kittydesade]

Oh my god The 100.

Okay, so, for reasons incomprehensible (I know them, I just can't quite wrap my head around this is my Twitter life now) to me one of the more recent showrunners and I are mutual follows on Twitter. And a while back there was a thing, in some cases a rude thing but still a thing, about where did these people get hair dye how are people coloring their hair and clothes what is this.

I may have accidentally at least a three tweet mini-rant on no, actually, since some of these processes are for protein fibers and these are the plants you can use to dye both hair and clothing and technically human hair is a protein fiber anyway but you'd need something to bind it with so here's how you hair with henna which they could totally harvest and process and did I mention one of the most common mordants for fiber dyeing is pee?

And I'm reasonably sure he RT'd it.

You're not the only one who watches post-apoc dsytopias and goes BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FIBER. There's a tumblr post like this too.

(I should watch The 100 probably.)

[silveradept]

Makes total sense to me. Also, the clothing should probably by a lot blockier, since they won't have machines to stitch curves.