The Language of Clothing

[Pleater]

For me, if it doesn't have stripes in colours visible at at least half a mile, it isn't a blazer. It should be teamed with a boater, and a punt, picnic basket, lady friend, summer afternoons, willows sweeping down to the water - possibly a film crew and a university.

I think that khaki, being plant based, might well be altered in how it takes on the fabric by what the fibre content is - originally wool, cotton or linen and perhaps by the mordant used, and the pH of the dye bath.
I well recall the sinking feeling of realizing that the careful measuring out of ingredients has somehow gone awry meaning that one of the batches of yarn is going to be a different shade, or possibly a different colour completely.

Anne the Pleater