🌿 Environment 1d ago · Kate Yoder

Gen Z is using ‘polyester’ as an insult. It’s actually a throwback.

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Gen Z is using ‘polyester’ as an insult. It’s actually a throwback.
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Even if you’re not wearing polyester now, it’s probably sitting somewhere in your closet — after all, it is the most ubiquitous fabric for textiles on Earth. Is that bad? 



Judging by social media, the answer is solidly “yes.” Influencers want you to know it’s a form of plastic, fashioned from melted crude oil or PET bottles and extruded into threads. That disgust factor (“ugh, I’m wearing plastic?”) might help explain why “polyester” is now trending as an insult on TikTok.



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