I spent New Year's Day at the museum
(where you can get the best lunches and desserts! not that this is why I go; it's for intellectual pursuits. Really. Because if I eat enough of the carrot cake with cream cheese icing they serve there I will totally be able to pin down the recipe with my brain. Ha - intellectual!)
seeing, among other things, an exhibition of portraits printed in Vanity Fair over the years.
And what I'd like to know is:
Why did Cary Grant let himself be photographed wearing a crewneck pullover with a consistently placed plethora of pills?
They were soft fuzzy pills, not the attached-by-a-thread kind that are so easy to shave off. And they were everywhere, all over the front and sleeves. I'm not talking about halo here. I'm talking about a halo convention - the kind where halo bits hook up with other halo bits and talk shop in the hallways between sessions.
I think it had to be from washing, unless he had just hugged a tree and the bark didn't want to let go (and who could blame it if so? this is Cary Grant we're talking about!*)
That's mystery number one. Mystery number two is, what kind of yarn does that? Straight mohair?
Anyway this is what I will be pondering today as I reknit my aunt's hat. Again.
UPDATED TO ADD
A link to the photo. You can zoom in on it, and I thought at one point it was herringbone, but when I zoomed more I could say that - nope, just pills on stocking stitch.
Surely it wasn't 100% acrylic?
*maybe he'd just been fending off the embraces of thousands of fans?
10 comments:
What Cary Grant needed was a fuzz-buster. Incidentally, my favourite prezzie under the tree this year: a fuzz-buster.
Fuzz-busters rule!
I wonder if this pic is online somewhere. I need to see it.
Is this it???
http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg212/mes114/FAME/?action=view¤t=CN00007922_EXTR.jpg&newest=1
wow- pill city
Me again- my guess is that it's supposed to be that way. There's too much conformity in the pillage (heh). Maybe it was a textured yarn.
Side note: wow, he was a handsome man
I couldn't click through on the photobucket link, Kathi, but I found another one and added it to the post! check it out and see what you think.
yep- same pic. Very mysterious. Handsome, but mysterious
Mmmmm, pills or no pills, he looks just fine to me.
He makes me want to knit him a non-pilling boyfriend sweater!
I've found that all of my acrylic jumpers look like that after a while. I'm allergic to lanolin so anything I wear has to be non-wooly :-(
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