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Posted on: 4/9/09 3:29 PM ET
OK, so I love my khakis made from $1.99/yard stretch twill from Hancocks. But they wrinkle so bad! I have V shaped wrinkles from where my pants fold when I sit down.

What fabrics resist this? I don't want something more fluid, I like the crisper fabrics for this pants pattern, but I feel like I look so sloppy all day because of the wrinkling.
  
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Posted on: 4/9/09 4:24 PM ET
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I make my pants for work (I sit most of the time) and have found that the most wrinkle resistant ones have viscose in them. I have a wonderful pair (62% poly, 32% viscose, 6 % lycra), they look like a lightweight wool and need almost no ironing after hanging to dry. A couple of pairs that I made from Bengaline (Rayon/poly/lycra..didn't write down the %s) are very wrinkly, but if I dry them in a low dryer after hanging to damp stage they aren't too bad. I have a really impossible pair made from Poly/lycra that wrinkle and are extremely difficult to iron. I think it must be the lycra that makes them so wrinkly...

So, really, my only advice is to keep track of the fibre content and the fabric behavior and overtime you will know what works for you. You could also buy a small bit of a fabric you are considering and launder it first to see how it behaves.

Perhaps others have good ideas they can share.
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Posted on: 4/9/09 5:27 PM ET
I second the poly, viscose , lycra - comfy, resist wrinkles and pet hairs.
Wool mixes are also nice though have to be more careful with laundering.
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Posted on: 4/9/09 9:46 PM ET
Isn't viscose the same as rayon?
  
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Posted on: 4/9/09 10:30 PM ET
I recently got some cotton/poly/lycra twill from Fabric.com - I haven't sewn it up yet, but after washing, it doesn't seem like it would wrinkle. The same probably goes for their regular cotton/poly twill, but I haven't seen it in person. The cotton/poly/lycra stuff is a bit heavier and stiffer than some cotton twills I have seen, and it almost has a two-tone look that doesn't come through in the pictures - the warp threads are white. There isn't much stretch - maybe just a slight bit.
  
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Posted on: 4/10/09 3:48 AM ET
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Isn't viscose the same as rayon?

Yes viscose is the name used in the UK, rayon in the US - just the way the usage has grown up I guess.

Rayon on Wikipedia

Sadly it doesn't look that rayon is very environmentally friendly, which is a shame as its lovely to wear.
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Posted on: 4/10/09 4:47 AM ET
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One of the things I like about Tencel (aka lyocel) is that it is kinder to the environment than rayon because the chemicals are removed from the water and re-used. Tencel doesn't lose as much strength when wet as rayon. WikipediaTencel page
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Posted on: 4/11/09 0:44 AM ET
In reply to RuthieSews
Looking at the Wiki article, it appears the environmental concern only applies to one of the three methods--- the "viscose" method. Like Ruthie, I'm a big fan of Tencel... really nice stuff but so difficult to find, let alone at reasonable prices.
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Posted on: 4/11/09 2:18 PM ET
In reply to FirecrackerKTM
Didn't you get some of that chocolate brown RPL from Fabric Mart? LOL, same price as Hancocks' fabric but the RPL should behave exactly as you wish. Maybe try making the same pattern using the RPL. Hmm, I'm having a flashback, or it's my imagination, that you said you were surprised at how springy the hand of the RPL was. Well just think, your PRL khakis will spring back instead of wrinkle.
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