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Originally Posted by hermes
all others, such as cashmere, alpaca, vicuna etc., are hollow at the core, like human hair, which gives it a certain luxury of softness but not necessarily the durability of solid core wool hairs
I have an alpaca summer suit, and the tailor actually told me, when I chose the cloth (kind of dark grey cloth) that is might be less durable than a corresponding wool cloth (I said that I wanted a suit suitable for travelling and he said that he would not recommend wearing it several days in a row, as the alpaca cloth is not that durable). It has a nice "shiny" texture and I feel that the cloth is quite "crispy", but it may have more to do with the way the cloth has been woven than with the raw material.
