High fashion
I was just looking at the winter stuff over at the Gap's new craptastic website, which only works in Firefox, and all of a sudden - whoa! A zillion shawls, wraps, and capelets! I thought, hey, cool, all our wonderful knitted stuff is totally in fashion now. The "pom-pom capelet" is a solid cabled version of the Spiderweb Capelet from S&B Nation, and that lacy shawl pattern looks... waitaminute. WTF are they doing calling that thing a crochet floral wrap? I'm no crochet expert (I can barely ch7 for a provisional cast-on) but even from that small photo, that looks like knitted lace to me. But I have a theory: I bet they call the lacy things "crochet" because "knit" sounds like either drapey jersey fabric or heavy sweaters. Either that, or they're just stupid, which considering the non-functionality of their new website, seems pretty likely.
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Really, dear daughter, that sounds like something from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Your Loving Father
Actually, it's because crochet is now more hip than knitting. And most people can't tell the difference.
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