Is it the case that the quality of Ts is worse now? I don't remember this from when I was a teen/in my 20s. |
how much time were you spending at the kitchen counter as a teen/young adult. |
Mine also get them, but I dont think it's a granite counter thing.
I keep them too. I also change into comfy clothing as soon as I get home, so those qualify or I wear them as undershirts under a sweater in the winter. |
OP here and fwiw, we no longer have granite countertops and I still get the holes in most every t-shirt. I think it's caused by the buttons on pants rubbing against any kind of counter, and/or seatbelts. Drives me nuts! |
Belt making holes? |
FYI - I used to recommend (and recycle) at H&M as well but it seems they don’t really recycle the textiles. See quote below. I now take textiles to the boxes at the Montgomery County Transfer Station which is less convenient. They partner with a group that recycles (allegedly). “In January 2023, two Swedish reporters decided to hand in ten H&M garments to one of the chain’s many collection boxes in Sweden. To explore what actually happens with the clothes, they equipped all garments with Bluetooth-driven air tags to be able to trace their journey. After five months of intense tracking, none of the garments had ended up at any of their partner’s sorting stations or recycling facilities, as promised by H&M. Instead, several garments had managed to travel across the globe, ending up in landfills in countries such as Ghana and Benin. These are known as some of the worst dumping grounds in the world. In Ghana alone, a total of 314 000 kilos of clothes, approximately over one million garments, have been dumped by H&M’s partners this year.” |
Me too. |
Indoor, workout, rags, experimental toddler clothes/patches, doll clothes |
She sounds incredibly cheap. |
I don't have granite countertops and do very little food prep or dishes and still get the holes. it's mostly in thinner T-shirts, or at least those get them much quicker. |
I started buying Hanes womens Nano t-shirts and don’t get the holes in those. The vast majority of my “nicer” t-shirts that are thinner and actually drape nicely on my body get the holes. The Hanes t’s are just sturdier. |
I've read that the holes can also be caused by washing shirts in the same load as things with metal zippers that are unzipped, so jeans, hoodies, etc...I try to remember to zip everything up before washing now but I don't know if it really has made a difference |
DP but sounds smart to me 🤷♀️ |
I do this, but hasn’t stopped the holes. |
Yes. The quality is worse. This topic has come up before and people have made more technical observations about the state of the cotton industry and fast fashion. Many people who write in about this never had it happen in 30 years or more of shirt wearing, then it happened to them, they thought it was something they were doing. Then they find a thread like this and discover it's industry-wide. The first time I learned I was not alone was in the comments section of a WaPo article about problems in the women's fashion industry. There was a person who called it "belly button rot". I got a good laugh out of that. At that time, the shirts with problems mostly started near the hemline, particularly where the jeans placket ended in a point/corner near the button. |