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Toni Savage
October 3rd, 2007, 06:56 AM
It was only invented (or brought over from some other
language) around 2000 or so.

Might have been a bit earlier in really upperupper
class circles... originally pashmina scarves cost
several thousand dollars, because they were said to be
made from the fur of (yaks? Angora goats?) that came
from some spot on the animal that had really soft but
warm fur. Supposedly, a large neckscarf weighed only
a couple of ounces, but was as warm as one much
thicker and heavier. And it took dye really well, so
they come in lots of colors.

I read that it was really all hype, and today, as I
said, you can get them for a buck or two on the street
here in NYC. (probly still thousands out in
Hollywood)


--- Tony Abell <hello (AT) isanybodyhome (DOT) com> wrote:

>
>
> On 2007-10-02 at 16:32 Scott Crom wrote:
>
> > Three of the first seven responders to the posting
> of PASHMINA
> > were DQs, one of them even suggesting "everybody
> knows..." Well,
> > I didn't know, and when I saw that word in the
> caption to a
> > recent New Yorker Magazine cartoon, I was smitten.
>
> That means at least four responders didn't know it,
> either. Nor did I, nor is
> it in any of my dictionaries, so I don't think
> "everybody" knows it. Then again, I
> don't read the New Yorker any more.
>
> --
> Tony
>
>
>


-- Toni Savage

Judy Madnick
October 3rd, 2007, 07:09 AM
<< Might have been a bit earlier in really upperupper
<< class circles... originally pashmina scarves cost
<< several thousand dollars

I guess that's why I never heard the word. LOL!

Judy

Judy Madnick
October 3rd, 2007, 07:09 AM
<< Might have been a bit earlier in really upperupper
<< class circles... originally pashmina scarves cost
<< several thousand dollars

I guess that's why I never heard the word. LOL!

Judy

JohnnyB
October 3rd, 2007, 07:24 AM
Tony

The only difference that I can see between cashmere - which has been around fashion circles for decades (since about 1820 for the
British Raj) - and pashmini is that cashmere is from domesticated goats and originated in Kashmir and pashmini is from wild or
feral goats and claims to be from the high Himalayas in Nepal, Bhutan and Afghanistan and what was Tibet

Personally I am not even convinced there is really a difference -- one of the dictionaries I use suggests that pushmina (also
pashmina) is derived from the state of Kashmir and has the intriguing comment "it differs from merino in being twilled on one side
only" (and then does not have an appropriate meaning for "twill"!!) -- I remember as a child that my father (who had spent years
in India) demonstrated that his employer had been 'rooked' for the test for a good one is that a full-size shawl should be capable
of being passed through a lady's wedding ring. What he had purchased felt soft enough but failed the test. He returned it and bought
(for a lot more money) one that passed the test.

JohnnyB