Fabric!

[triskellian]

This afternoon's shopping trip with blondeccgirl culminated in the purchase of acres of beautiful silk dupion (that slightly bobbly silk - cruelty-free since it involves the death of no silkworms, according to M). It's scarlet shot with purple, so it mostly looks darkish red, and slightly shimmery. I have a small piece of it beside me as I type, and it's very lovely indeed. The trip was especially fun for seeing the slight double-take of the sales assistants on realising this was for a wedding dress, not a bridesmaid's dress: it seems that getting married in a colour other than white or ivory is still quite unusual.

secretrebel - there was also some rather gorgeous chiffon with embroidered butterflies, and I would have bought you some if it hadn't been £35 a metre. Sorry ;-)

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

But you eat meat.

[triskellian]

It's true, and the cruelty-free-ness of the silk (if in fact M's right) was not the deciding factor in the purchase of the stuff - I'm only mentioning it as an aside. But still, I wouldn't wear fur, and a lot of the difference between wearing fur and eating meat is just to do with picking a fairly arbitrary place in a big mass of grey and drawing a line, but that doesn't make the line not worth drawing at all.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I mostly agree, but if the line is wobbly instead of straight (as I guess mine is), then the question is raised as to whether much meaning can be ascribed to it.

[triskellian]

I think the line still has meaning if it's wobbly, because it's not just about how 'bad' you think each point on it is, but also how 'hard' it is to do something about it.

Not wearing fur, for example, is very easy indeed, whereas not wearing leather is rather harder (which is, I guess, why many vegetarians wear leather: quite an inconsistency, but a reasonable one IMO). Even if your assessment of the 'badness' of leather and fur is the same, I think it's reasonable to have them on different sides of the line. Silk's somewhere in between, so it's in a bit of a grey area for me, but, as you say, I eat meat, so wearing silk doesn't constitute a great inconsistency.