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| Alexander Seraphimoff |
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| A "seminal" incident in my
history occurred in 1972 when I was twelve. In the ideological days of the
early 1970s groups of men walked the city streets wearing red armbands and
calling themselves "Voluntary Helpers Of Militia". They would sometimes
carry enormous scissors for cutting off the signs of Western
decadence-bell-bottoms and long hair on men. I was attacked by three adult
men carrying tailor's scissors: I, being twelve-year-old, was resisting
and fighting with wild frenzy because I was remembering how long and how
laboriously my mother sewed for me that velveteen trousers -- my first
bell-bottomed trousers... I was ready to "die a hero's death", but
couldn't allow them to cut up my mamma's work. And, after the unsuccessful
(for them) scuffle, having given up, one of them cried: "Degenerate!
Yuckish idolater of the West! You must know that the bell-bottomed
trousers are worn ONLY BY THE TRAITORS, who are copying the American mode
of life!!!" Certainly, I avoid to use the synthetic yarn. I buy and use "%100 natural" yarn (sheep's and llama's wool as well as cotton). It definitely seems to me that nowadays the 100% organic yarn is not existing on sale. At present, if you see (at the label of yarn) an inscription "100%" you should realize that it's implying no more than 95%. The "hidden" rest (from 5% to even 10%) contains viscose, lavsan and so on -- "things" that make the knitwear made by "natural" yarn more "yielding springing" and less creased. Therefore I have to say that my "organic" knitwear is APPROXIMATELY organic... :) Alexander
Seraphimoff |
