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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[petite_rosalie]

Real silk such as charmeuse, satin, and light crepe costs about 10-15$ a yard. Textured silks such as jacquard and brocades and range from 15$ a yard to hundreds of dollars. The highest quality silks such as duchesse satin will cost you about 100$ per yard and are only used in very fine evening gowns and, as you may imagine, used by designers. In short, I do believe that the dress is likely to be made with real silk of lower quality compared to the finest imported silks.

[shuucreme]

Interesting! How did you come to that conclusion? I understand that you mean that it's expensive, but how does that prove it's silk?

[petite_rosalie]

I'm just going on by the price of silk fabric per yard compared to her silk dresses and reviewing the photos of them. It's a best guess and theoretical. Based upon my knowledge as a seamstress and fashion design student I can guess that most likely the dress is made from real silk. Her photos and doing the math of price per yard of silk is the only evidence I have available.

[___ifwinterends]

Going by your pricing (and I didn't know lower quality silk was that cheap) I guess it's possible but when you think about it the price doesn't really mean much, right? I mean brand dresses are usually made of nothing but cotton and some chemical lace yet cost 250 bucks so even with just cotton and lace an indies designer charging 150 bucks would sound about right. It's with that conclusion that I thought the dress was a bit cheap to be silk...I mean even with just cotton an indies designer can sell a dress for 150 bucks so if it were a more expensive fabric I feel like it would be a lot more...just my guess of course, I don't think anyone can know for sure since pricing of clothing is so subjective. Chanel and other designers clothes really don't mirror the cost to make them, either..

[teacupcracked]

I'm splitting hairs here, but would like to note not as any kind of corrective/ nit-picker but just for expanding general community understanding, that cotton comes in many, many different grades. There is extremely cheap t-shirt cotton and then there's super expensive bed sheet cotton (500+ thread count). I do not know what kind of cottons the brands use exactly, but having seen and felt the texture of the brand dresses in person I can say they are definitely of a "much-better-then-most" variety. The only element that has ever made me question the quality is that the better/more expensive the cotton, the more durable it's suppose to be and that's something we kind can't text/explore by the design and detailing nature of most Lolita clothes.

[shuucreme]

Oh! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I was wondering, simply because brand dresses are über expensive but not made of silk.

I knew that if it were real silk it probably would not be the highest quality (I have a real silk jacket, the price was no where near her dresses), but I had nothing else really past that. Do you have any non-invasive ways of telling if something is silk? I mean, I know that one cannot tell 100% without chemical testing, but I was wondering if there is a quality silk usually has that defines it.

[harukoko]

I wouldn't be able to tell without seeing it, but I've always thought Lady Sloth undercharges for her work so it wouldn't surprise me if it was real silk.