Plastic pants

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scotty
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Re: Plastic pants

Post by scotty »

Hi Cherie
I’m exactly like you, I always care for my rainwear and plastics. Just got a pair of pink and semitransparent pants, have just hand washed and hung in shower to drip dry.
Looking forward to slipping them on tomorrow when all dry.
Regards
Scotty
Cherie
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Re: Plastic pants

Post by Cherie »

Despite taking care, I am always disappointed that my plastic pants do not last as long as I would like. I would love to know how some people can have pants that remain in good condition for years when, on mine, the seams invariably start to go after a few weeks of wearing. Either they have found pants with a better seam construction, are not made of pure unbacked plastic, or wear a fuller garment so that the seams are not stressed. When you are paying £25 a pair it would be nice if they lasted a bit longer. I do repair damage to prolong the life, but once there is a repair, the pants are never quite as nice anymore.

Cherie x
ilikecoated
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Re: Plastic pants

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Definitely not! All my clothes are to be looked after and treated with respect. I always mourn the demise of a favourite PVC raincoat or pair of plastic leggings. I think I might need to start a new charity - National Society for the Protection of Rainwear (NSPR). I’d have white vans driven by men and women in shiny black plastic suits for their uniforms, driving around saving innocent plastic pants from abuse and bringing them back to me to be loved and cared for 😜
I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to find enough volunteers on this site alone. ;)

Coming back to the suffering part: I don't know what percentage of plastic panties are bought by "plastic lovers" . I guess less than 10%. The manufacturers and medial suppliers are aware of our "alternative use" and don't mind a little extra revenue. Even some particular Suprima products support this assumption.
But let's not forget that maybe some thousands of them are being wetted only while I write this. And some hundreds of thousands are desperately waiting to be wetted during the day. In the best case they are rinsed right afterwards and receive careful cleaning. In the worst case they stay wet for some time, maybe until there is a large enough pile for starting the washing machine. And then they receive a proper boil wash.
There must still be hundreds of new ones being taken into service each day worldwide and almost the same amount being "decommissioned" and ending in landfills and incinerators.
I wonder how many of these back from the times when they were most popular (fifties to seventies) are rotting in a dump. Stiff and yelllowish from daily use. I can clearly remember how they turned stained and ugly when I was a kid and how much different new ones looked when they were tanken into service for the first time. During winter times the old ones ended ip in the heating. I liked wearing them a lot but at the same time I hated being put into these because I felt very sorry for them.
And don't forget that shiny vinyl garments for instance suffer quite a lot from normal wearing already. Tight fitting vinyl jeans for instance suffer from the stretching and motion and the tighter they are the sweatier they get and sweat is definitely a "killer".
vp39
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Re: Plastic pants

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@Cherie, you said "...the seams invariably start to go after a few weeks of wearing."

I like my plastic panties to be on the snug side and used to have that problem with Gary plastic pants. I finally learned not to have my fingers right on the side seams when donning or doffing the pants. Now that I have that habit I don't seem to have that problem any more. Now for Gary pants the failure mode for full-cut pants is tears coming up from the leg elastics, and for bikini-cut ones hardening from plasticizer loss in the front where they run the warmest.

For plastic tops, dresses, or raincoats that I wear next to my skin, the failure mode is hardening from plasticizer loss in the shoulders and upper back, the areas where my skin exudes the most oil.
Nylon macs
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Re: Plastic pants

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plasticpacamac wrote: August 5th, 2024, 10:29 pm Now I'm an old man I've taken to the popper-style pants where you can lie on your back on the open pant and fasten the poppers up one by one. The first reliable ones I bought in this style were by Suprima; earlier popper pants I tried had poppers either too tight that the plastic tears when you undo them or too loose that they pop open too easily. The supplier I chose only had colour pink in stock at the time so I bought those. The first time I put them on I felt a right sissy in my pink plastic panties! Another thing that happens to older men, at least to me, is your tits get saggy and you develop man-boobs that really need supporting but I found a company, Susie High, did a pink plastic bra that supported my saggy old-man's titties. So now I'm a right sissy in my pink plastic panties and my bra but I must admit to rather enjoying that!
Love to try theme on sounds wonderful
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Re: Plastic pants

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plasticpacamac wrote: September 2nd, 2024, 10:30 pm Which, the pink plastic panties or the pink plastic bra?
Mmm both 🙂👍
evad
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Re: Plastic pants

Post by evad »

In my humble experience of 68 years at it: in Canada and the US, you can't beat Kins for durability, and the wonderful buttery plastic "feel".
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Re: Plastic pants

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I wore my very soft plastic pants in deep pink to bed last nighr and still have them on whilst I'm having my breakfast. Feel so nice
vp39
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Re: Plastic pants

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pvcluver wrote: September 4th, 2024, 7:40 am I wore my very soft plastic pants in deep pink to bed last nighr and still have them on whilst I'm having my breakfast. Feel so nice
Me too. I normally wear the plastic pants I slept in, and a plastic dress over them, until I shower. If there's nothing much going on, I might not shower until noon or later. So that's what I'm wearing now, one of my blue plastic dresses over purple plastic panties. "Feel so nice" - yes indeed!
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Re: Plastic pants

Post by annabell-cagoule »

Always wanted a plastic dress, where is yours from?
Lets get swishy!
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