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Is it possibly dimity cotton? Although, that usually has more uniform spacing between the bars... What weight is it? It almost looks like denim in the pic.
dhermann1 said:Oh, man! This is great! So many questions answered and confusions solved.
But speaking of gabardine, I've always wondered about a line I once had in a Shakespeare play, The Tempest. "I will creep under his gabardine till the dregs of the storm be past." (This is followed by the very famous line, "Misery doth acquaint a man with strange bedfellows!")
I've always wondered what exactly was meant by gabardine, I suppose a cloak?
LizzieMaine said:Is it just me, or does rayon have a *smell?* Every pair of rayon stockings I've ever owned has had a very faint sort of woody/cellulose sort of aroma, sort of like a cross between pencil shavings and corrugated cardboard. I don't pick this up from modern rayon, and I don't have any vintage rayon other than hosiery, but I'd be interested to know if anyone else has ever picked this up in any other vintage rayon.