Lady Sloth Silk-- real, or not?

[shuucreme]

Hi guys, I was wondering if the dresses that Lady Sloth bills as "silk" are really silk?

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[___ifwinterends]

Somebody who knows for sure will probably answer but just as a starter reply...if it's cheap it's probably not silk. Is it the cherubin dress? If I Googled right it's about 160 dollars...that seems really cheap for silk even if it's only the skirt part. It does say 100% silk, though....maybe the best thing would be to take it to a dry cleaners or seamstress and ask, they would know.

[shuucreme]

It's not the cherubin dress, it's actually a dress that they never seemed to mass market (or it's an older dress) that I purchased from lady sloth on the comm sales. Would a seamstress be able to tell? There are good fakes out there, nowadays, though I guess people experienced in handling silk may be able to have a guess.

[clarice]

The cherubim fabric used for that skirt is 16 momme 100% silk and pretty easy to find for sale. The lighter weight Chinese silk prints are not expensive. Silk isn't necessarily more expensive that decent quality cotton, especially given that you get the benefit of exchange rates when buying out of China that you don't get buying out of Japan or US/Europe where a lot of the cotton prints retail.

[shuucreme]

Cool! Do you have a source for that? Or are you just able to tell by feel?

[clarice]

You mean the cherubim fabric? I know what it is because I've bought it. Retailers list the weight of their fabrics.

[shuucreme]

I meant how do you know it's silk though? Does the weight tell you?