How to Use a Lighter to Catch Dishonest Tailors and Fake Luxury Fabrics
How to Use a Lighter to Catch Dishonest Tailors and Fake Luxury Fabrics TL;DR / EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The textile burn test is a definitive method to authenticate luxury suit fabrics against synthetic counterfeits. Pure wool burns slowly, smells like burning hair, and leaves crushable ash—whereas synthetic polyester melts rapidly into a hard plastic bead. The […]
