Thanks all for the responses about those velvet terms; much appreciated. NOW... we need to replace some bath towels. BUT! where do YOU buy decent bath towels these days?
JCPenney used to be our go-to for almost all bed & bath linens, but not so much these days. They appear to be suffering the breakdown in quality that so many textiles are. (You can't get PermaPrest bed sheets anymore, sigh, although I still have a few inherited from my mother, and my own student housekeeping. I suppose that one is OK, apparently the permaprest process was an environmental horror that even in the olden days of 30+ years ago became unsupportable.) But bath towels, now! I have remnants of a couple of bath sheets that I made into a house-robe for Mr. Shoulders, possibly 30 years ago. This 100% cotton fabric is STILL full-surfaced and soft as satin! It's cut into ca. 12" squares and the sides do not ravel or produce "bits" in the wash. JCP is certainly not carrying this quality of towelling these days, or for the past decade at least. Most of the older towels we have (from various sources) seem to last about 3 years before they go so thin that they dry like sandpaper, OR start to have the seamed selvages rip out, OR start to tear away at the flat-weave sections... So, please! Where do YOU-all buy or order on-line, what brand(s), of bath towels that STAY full and soft and in one piece, these days? Thanks much! chimene et al _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
