Machine Pleated Polyester

You have flown with one bag under the seat, walked off ready, and you would like it understood that this was not luck. Heat set pleats in polyester hold the shape they were pressed into, wash in a hotel sink, dry by morning, and survive a person who has never once read a care label. None of that is humble. It is engineering, and it beats every natural fibre in the room at the one job it took.

Here is the part you will read quickly and move past: you are close to impossible to affect, and it has cost you things. The pleat does not record the day. Nothing that happened to you in it shows on it afterwards, so anyone who needs proof that an evening mattered will not be getting it from you.

Wrong for anyone who wants a garment that feels like an animal was involved. It is a plastic, it sounds like a plastic in a quiet room, and in real August heat it does what plastic does.