It's Christmas.
Perhaps you'll take out your patent calfskin shoes and Madame her angora sweater studded with sequins.
Like the tree in the living room or the crystal glasses in the dining room, it has to shine!
However, it will be difficult to beat Claude François whose jackets cut by the Camps de Luca tailor sparkled with a thousand lights thanks to a cloud of sequins, arranged like scales.
A form of brilliance that Michael Jackson or Liberace did not deny.
Think of a CD of his "works" for piano tomorrow night!
To make a fabric shine, it is also possible to incorporate metallic threads.
This thousand-year-old technique has a defect, that of rigidity.
Spinners from the Middle Kingdom had clearly identified this pitfall and had developed gold-lacquered silk threads for ceremonial clothes.
Apotheosis of human genius.
This technique still exists, but silk is replaced by polyester and gold by an inept metal.
Change of time.
This fabric...
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