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May 22, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Clothing fabric description
A reader submits a screenshot from a product page from Wintersilks:
So is this poncho 60% silk or 100% silk?
They should make the fabric description of this poncho clearer.
60% silk from Bombyx mori mori, 40% sik from Bombyx mori nylon for a total of 100% silk... of course
Is it possible that top is two pieces, one of which is a 60/40 blend, and the other being 100% silk?
It's obvious! The garment is composed of 60% silk, and that silk is composed of 100% silk ! You're obviously not marketing folk *LOL*
Nylon jersey twist is not silk. Silk is natural while nylon is a man made fabric constructed from the same molecules that plastics are made from. Broken.
I'll tell you what's broken. Its not the fabric the damn thing is made of, look at it. Its a hideous poncho. Anyone wearing that should get a broken face.
I do agree it's the poncho itself that's broken.
While it doesn't look to have two pieces I suspect there are two materials in it, one of which is 60/40 and the other 100%. There's a top part that's thicker and then the sheer material coming down. I suspect this top part contains the nylon.
Hmm. Misspellings, bad looking model, bad clothing idea, badly executed statistics about the clothing, potentially misleading facts...
Looks like we have a home run here. Somebody needs to be fired...
...And considering it's summer, nobody was smart enought to say, "shouldn't we wait until Winter, or make it skimpy enough to be more of a decoration?"
I guess they made it skimpy. Nobody will be wearing it this Winter, though! ROFL dumb advertisers!
Perhaps the 60% silk in the fabric is 100% silk...
Like that cheese in your burrito is 100% real cheese, although that doesn't make the burrito 100% cheese...
Or perhaps they just made a typo. :P
it's 60% silk and 40% nylon polyester twist for a total of 100% sillk
silk + nylon + polyester=sillk
Just a WAG but maybe what they are trying to say is the main poncho is 100% silk and the edging is the twist thing which has a different make up.
That is some of the ugliest clothing I've ever seen. It takes a good-looking person and makes her look fat. It's bad marketing and bad fashion -- 200% broken.
Forget the poncho... what I would like to know is who would want anything the color of "dusty moss"? Couldn't they come up with a better color name?
Often the different colors a garment comes in are made from slightly different fabrics. Perhaps one or more of the colors is 100% silk, but another color is only 60% silk. Still, it would be less confusing to spell this out.
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both 'silk' and 'nylon jersey twist' are types of 'sillk'?
btw that is the dumbest clothing idea ever.
Posted by: gmangw at May 22, 2006 12:19 AM