Bride lulz

ohashlet

A vegan bride I ranted about a while ago came in today. She wants us to make her custom bamboo bridesmaid dresses for her.

I noticed her dress was an organza and silk Nicole Miller dress, so I immediately asked if she'd want to do a dupioni (raw) silk gown. She said no, she wasn't really interested and I countered with, "Ahh I figured it'd integrate well into the silk on your silk gown."

Oh, the face she gave me was something like "" and looked like a beat puppy as she said, "My dress is silk?"

I guess Vegans don't wear silk because they boil the worms to make the fabric (or so she said), and the girl who she bought it from told her it was polyester...

I'd think if she was ethically opposed to a fabric she'd know how to identify it?

 

ETA: That turned out way longer than I meant it to. And maybe not that funny to the general public. Whoops.

 

Mrs.EliK

Wow.  That's is interesting.  You would think if she was going that far for the bridesmaids dresses that she would have gone even further with the type of wedding dress. 

iteachk

::Scratches head::

Boiled worms, really?  Doesn't bother me, but I didn't know that.  Interesting post.  And funny. 

kayash

Nope, no silk for vegans (maybe not all vegans, I'm not totally up on my vegan knowledge).

That's funny that she didn't know. You probably shook her to her core, lol. She's probably at home right now reading every label in her closet.

PubStar09

Eww. I didn't know they boil the worms for silk. Gross.  I thought it was just an extraction process. 

Probably wouldn't stop me from wearing it, but whatever. 

Also, I agree that as such a hardcore vegan, one would think she would be able to identify animal-generated fabrics.

greenclown

Dude, if I were that committed to something to the point where I would not wear a certain type of fabric, I'd look at the fvcking tag before freaking buying it.  FFS.  Hell, I do that as it is, and there aren't any fabrics I won't wear (except fur, and I do try to avoid polyester).