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Okay... I've suddenly got involved in the great towel debate...
Soft or hard towels?
Or, as one friend insists, the real issue is waxy vs. absorbent towels?
A few thoughts from friends in following toots to help spur your towel thinking, if you're so minded.
Thoughts from Canada:
I thrash myself with a porcupine every morning to exfoliate my beautiful skin, and leech’s of course to take demons from the blood. Don’t eat the leech’s you use though, only eat fresh ones. Or you will just put the demons back in there!
Canada (pt.2):
Why are there crunchy towels? Oh yes, you're living in Scotland, the only country that has the heating and insulation of their homes in a cold northern country that is still in the dark ages.
Empire mongrel:
I like to imagine his morning routine involves a menagerie of carcasses. The real issue is waxy vs absorbent. Nothing worse than waxy towels water doesn't go on. I don't use towels for their skin feel, but to dry my skin. This is a multi-variant issue: towel size.
The Englishman:
A towel that is too soft and fluffy I don’t like, you never feel dry properly and it feels like a scam. A rough towel also feels cheap and latently pestilential though. Even in the sauna I went to by mistake, I didn’t get a rough towel.
Irishman 1: Soft is okay, but smooth is odd. Makes me think of crap hotel towels. Ted Hughes used a wire brush and a rough towel every morning. A wire brush on his body. He got the routine from an occultist, as I recall.
The Australian: Mostly hard towels, occasional lapses into softness. Anything but microfibre travel towels.
Irishman 2: Yes I love a rough towel. I have a scrub brush that is so rough that when I use it I come out glimmering red. It's so rough, like sore to use, but I love the feeling.
More from Ireland: Gotta be a big towel too! None of this small to medium towel shite! And not a towel that sheds.
More from Scotland:
I like towels that absorb water quickly so not new ones. But not to the point that they are extra scabby.
Ireland on a roll: Must be a towel you can wrap around your waist, cool like, and be warm.
(THIS I AGREE WITH IMMENSELY)
Yeah. Makes me feel like a Roman or a Turk after a bath.
Decadent yet clean... healthy and robust --
Like my towel.
Ireland cotd.: Towels should both love AND respect you. Too soft towels that you KNOW are not dependable waist-wrappers, so you feel like a centurion, don't respect you! A towel is soft on the inside, armour on the outside.
Canada returns: Weird wire bristle people you disturb me greatly And warm yes. Soft fluffy towels are warm! Crunchy towels are not warm!
Adopted Scot: Oh god just bring me the Goldilocks towel already! from somewhere decent like John Lewis or Sainsbury’s Home (cheap towels are a false economy) and has had a couple of washes so that it’s “just right.”
They’re hardy, they wear in like good shoes.
Don’t get me started on travel towels they’re a con from satan himself to mock the basic creature comfort of getting decently dry before succumbing to hypothermia after bathing
@Breen People vary in what they need. i can just dust my skin and it gets completely dry (though my hair stays wet for hours). My partner absorbs water like a sponge and is still damp after towelling for ages.
@jennie_kermode Quite right.
I just never really thought about the centrality of a person's towel opinion to their well being.
It's been quite revelatory.