What are you great /fa/ fears? I wear lots of linen shirts and I'm terrified that Indians will start dressing this way and I'll have a pajeet coded wardrobe. They already ruined Dior Sauvage

linen is a mid tier summer fabric at best. many cotton and wool weaves are more breathable and able to be woven thinner, and have a much better drape without wrinkling, and they're softer. linen's cool if you're going for the look but its not even close to the best textile for staying cool in the summer. one of the only advantages flax has as a fiber is its long staple length, but almost all flax in the world is processed with machines made for cotton so it gets cut down to the same staple length as cotton anyways. only a few places in the balkans still make linen on mills actually meant for linen.
i can't help but notice linen is being pushed by the fast fashion industry right now because its very cheap and inexpensive to produce. pic related, even when you go to depop it shills linen to you on the front page.
can't help but notice there's a thread every week about linen but i've never seen a thread about seersucker or tropical wool before.
you got marketed to. congrats on discovering the 8th or 9th best summer fabric but there's better stuff out there. nothing against linen, i wear it, but i don't get the hype for such a mediocre fabric.

like seriously zoomerchildren there are so many textiles better than linen. i can't even name them all. i can think of at least 20 or 30 things more comfortable to wear when its hot out that also look better. the only catch is -- you won't find these textiles on $50 shirts.

>>18462368
>>18462371
Can you name some of these superior textiles? I live in a hot area and was about to splurge on a bunch of linen shirts

>>18462394
in order that's dobby cloth, gauze, poplin, voile, hopsack, chambray (note: usually looks more like denim and usually isn't so airy, that's an unusual chambray)
and the pic in this post is seersucker (my favorite)
you can probably find most of those in cotton or linen or a cotton/linen blend pretty easily.
there's other good stuff out there (silk, tropical wool, tons of other less common cotton weaves) a good way to discover them is browsing the uber high end brands s/s collections and seeing what they make their shirts from. sadly i've never really found a single article on summer textile that doesn't miss a ton of weaves.
linen's fine btw. i was just making a point that cotton or wool can be woven even thinner/more airy and that the weave matters even more than the fiber its made of. its also worth knowing that linen's one of the few fabrics where a blend can be preferable to 100%.

>>18462399
Appreciate you anon

>>18462401
no prob brother. i used to hate dressing for the summer.

I'm manifesting everything OP ever does will be swarmed by jeets

>>18462363 (OP)
I'm fat and the idea of my shirt going up so people can see my gut is so bad that I can't fucking wear anything that isn't tucked in

pretty sure indians were wearing linen before westoids but I don't care to look it up

>>18462368
I think H&M got some linen last summer that's why zooms think it's a hot new invention

>>18462363 (OP)
LMAO Indians already dress like your pic, even in villages. That's what typical Indian dads dress like since forever. This guy in picrel has more effortless swag than most /fa/gs on this board.

>>18462379
What shirt/material is this? I would like something near opaque like this.
>>18462363 (OP)
>Dior Sauvage
Is that a cologne where the alcohol smell pervades everything else, end result being the scent of a duty-free area? Indians enjoy those

>>18462608
>pretty sure indians were wearing linen before westoids but I don't care to look it up
oldest remains of linen found so far have been discovered in the Caucasus mountains a.k.a. where white people come from

Linen is a meme fabric. Brands have been pushing it for years now because it’s more “sustainable” than cotton, but it’s just cheap dogshit that wrinkles the second you put it on. Getting hard to find casual cotton shirts.

>>18462608
Indians traditionally wore cotton, silk and wool. Linen is a white people fiber/fabric. Even today Indians don't wear linen all that much. Cotton is much easier to grow in India.

>>18462382
Just with their was a white linen that wasn't see through

Line shirt is like THE standard make uniform in India you tard

>>18462625
Indians traditionally didn’t wear pants either dumbass. Somehow everyone in India has pants today. Wow it’s almost like they don’t wear what they wore traditionally anymore.

>>18462528
isn't difficult, everything ever will be

>>18462912
Learn to read, retard. The point is that Indians never wore linen to begin with, let alone before white people, unlike what the guy I was replying to claimed, because cotton has been the most popular fabric in India for thousands of years and that hasn't changed to this day. Cotton is much easier to grow and process in India and is far cheaper. So why the hell would Indians abandon that and start wearing linen?

>>18462606
wear higher rise trousers that sit right at or slightly above your belly button. that way you'll have a few extra inches of overlap between the shirt and your skin showing when your shirt's untucked. it also looks better to wear your pants across your gut rather than below if you have one -- but you could always just use different pants for tucked shirts if you aren't comfortable with it.

>>18462906
some blends get pretty opaque while remaining pretty breathable. that's why i like seersucker, its soft opaque and still breathes.

>>18462989
God I hate low rise pants so much it's unreal. The faggiest thing to happen to men's clothing. Even faggier than slim fit.

>>18462363 (OP)
Are linen shirts good for tall white boys with long hair

>>18463023
ideal customer

>>18463023
loose, airy slightly transparent garments are made for you as long as your body's OK to good.

>>18462363 (OP)
my greatest fear is becoming fat bald and short
Yes, it's entirely irrational as it will never happen to me, but still.

>>18462363 (OP)
I don't get that faggot thought pattern. Who cares if jeets copy trad euro fashion? They always fuck it up anyways. Its a weak and pathetic mindset.

>>18462623
lulz you have no idea what you are talking about.

>>18464252
You can still get fat and go bald.

>>18462982
>The point is that Indians never wore linen to begin with
Yes they did are you retarded

>>18462363 (OP)
I've seen Indians wear everything from t-shirts to polo shirts to button ups/downs to slacks to jeans to chinos to cargos to shorts. So unless you plan to become a nudist stop giving a shit about what some other people may or may not be wearing. Chances are they've worn everything and everything inbetween. The obsession this board has with being seen in something others are wearing is getting ridiculous.