I don't have any acrylic sweaters, but I was just reflecting on how much I love rayon as a dress material. I love my old rayon dresses. Nothing feels better, not even cotton.
On the other end of the economic ladder, there's a new house label at Target with polyester pullover sweaters that are just absurdly cozy. Heavy enough to be warm without suffocating, high-necked, deep burgundy. It makes me feel encased in hygge. No report on durability.
Vintage Dior acrylic sweaters probably cost about the same!
I almost bought a pair of vintage wool LL Bean pants. But I balked at the thought of becoming somebody who buys vintage clothing.
I wore a rayon dress today and am strongly pro-rayon. It's easy to sew, too.
How is today unlike all other days? peep explains!
I bet not just the youngest person at the table asked.
My vintage ortolan sweaters are neither comfortable nor durable (nor delicious), but they are more French than anything imaginable.
I didn't realize sweaters could be visibly French.
10: If a sweater/jumper has Breton stripes (which are stylishly jaunty, and with a nautical air), it is visibly French.
Most of our stereotypes of French clothes come from traveling Breton onion-sellers on bicycles who for some reason were a thing in late 19th C-early 20th C England.
Though I find this a bit puzzling:
the beret has never been a head-covering worn by the masses, mostly just artists, soldiers, manual laborers, and movie stars.
So soldiers and manual labourers aren't "the masses"?
VW just means they have cutesy phrases like "ou la la!" And "pardon my French!" written in gold feminine handwriting.
Or one of these "Fractured French" drawings.
I love my rayon aloha shirts, which feel pretty close to wearing no shirts but look much better (at least on me).
10: You can tell if it's an ortolan sweater b/c the hoodie goes in front.
12-14. Pretty sure I remember a Breton onion seller on a bike in the 50s. Not widespread but at least one guy was still doing it. In the uniform as described.
That is great. I want a book about how those accidents of history led to near-universal cultural perceptions. Like how our notion of pirates having a certain accent came from actor Robert Newton exaggerating his Dorset accent.
Are those Roscoff onions available over here? Do we just call them something different? They look shallot-ish.
It looks like I can order them online, at an effective price of $14.60/lb reckoning in shipping.
22: It's not the onion that's so expensive, it's shipping the Johnnie and his bike.
24: We used to have a lot of Johnnies around here, but they mostly seem to have decamped for The Other Place.