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Endivius -> RE: Egyptian Cotton Sheets (8/29/2012 8:46:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
Two of my favourite sets of sheets I bought at Walmart. I think they were 400 or 500 count.
Seriously, the actual thread count isn't all that important as there are ways that companies fudge it and make shitty quality sheets.
Myself, I do like a high thread count 100% cotton (it's the blends that tend to pill, especially the low thread count) that when I feel it in the package feels thick and heavy, almost scratchy. That tells me they are not fudging with their numbers and I am getting a substancial fabric. Not necessarily soft. Then I take them home and wash the piss out of them. They end up becoming much softer and smoother while maintaining the structural integrity of the fabric. Something I haven't got in the sateen.
The thing is, how they feel out of the package isn't a good indication. They've soaked them with sizing to make them look spiffy but it's no indication of what you will have a year later. A good quality 100% cotton percale with a high thread count will only get softer and smoother in time. I haven't got that with the sateen.
I am a TOTAL BEDDING DIVA.
Over time the ELS cottons will last the longest without pilling, tearing, or shrinking. I prefer the look of sateen. I know they have to be washed several times before they soften. An advantage to sateen is primarily the look, percale tends to pill and shrink wich is why I avoid them. All of my sheets have been sateen except when I was a kid and had percale.
What I'm really looking for is brand reccomendations. I haven't found anything up to my own personal standards yet. I had some my grandmother bought me when I went to college that were amazing, but alas some tramp knocked over an ashtray and wine cooler on my bed at a house party so I replaced them with what I got now wich isn't nearly as soft as what I had.
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