Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think that the same "abomination" word is used to wearing clothing made of mixed wool and linen.
That's exactly what kills me -- people who claim to be living by Biblical law, except OBVIOUSLY not all of them.
Although the Duggars just might do that one, which is why their clothes are all so bad.
In some very religious Jewish neighborhoods, there are shops where you can bring clothing to have someone check to make sure there isn't any linen/wool mixture in it. Apparently some brands will use a linen/wool mixture as the lining in the lapels of suits, so these shops will test the stuff like that and replace it with some other material if it is the wrong kind of fabric.
Would a cotton/poly blend be OK, or is it literally just the linen/wool?
It's literally just linen/wool.
One explanation I've heard is something about it not being right to combine a plant fiber with an animal fiber, but I can't recall ever seeing any sort of commonly accepted reasoning for that prohibition.
Huh!
BTW, here's a bit from Deuteronomy 22:
“A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God. 6 “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; 7 you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. 8 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it. 9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled. 10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 11 “You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together. 12 “You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.
So, basically, I feel like if you don't have a parapet, you're already screwed.
“You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
There go my weekend plans....
“You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.
Guess I'll spend the weekend making tassels instead....
I'm less inclined to boggle at Ms. Duggar for becoming pregnant at 41 (though she should be aware of the health risks, but that's true at any age) than for the child being her 18th.
When J names were being tossed around a bit ago, I'm surprised nobody mentioned British pop/R&B singer Jamelia.
Music to eat lunch to--this might be my favorite non-Who version of "Baba O'Riley" (Blue Man Group).