Having flashbacks to being being 15 with 25 dollars to spend in a boutique yarn shop. 😫 I wanted a really nice yarn for once to make a gift for someone I really liked and a clerk literally told me to stop touching all "the natural fibers, they pick up the oils from your skin." I was so humiliated but couldn't just leave because that felt like it'd be even worse. The clerk came over and started slowly rearranging everything I came close to.
I don’t know what it is, but I always pushed back against these types of things. When I was in kindergarten, my family went to a really fancy restaurant where everybody HAD to finish each course at a certain time. I hadn’t finished my soup, the waiter took it away, and I yanked it back out his hands. I was 5.
Right? The point of handmade is so that you can control the feel of the finished project, and that includes handling the fibres to make sure they feel right. That clerk was just a snotty bitch.
Whenever my fiance and I step foot into a boutique he has to slap my hands away from everything like, "that costs your entire paycheck don't even think about it," lmao
I fondled a $1.5k sweater at a store last week and when I checked the tag I nearly died and neatly folded it back up and placed it on the table like, "how could they possibly trust me around something this expensive?"
There seriously are people SO into making yarn that they do indeed have yarn that's not meant to be made into anything. It's called "art yarn" and it's the final form of "pretending to have a hobby but the hobby is just buying things."
What happens if I make clothes out of the yarn? Will it feel oily all the time? Or just crumble? Sounds pretty impractical for something that is intended to be worked with with your hands
She was literally just calling me dirty. It doesn't actually do this in fact I think wool is supposed to resist this a bit? Not 100 on that so don't quote me but yeah even then I knew she was wanted me out of her store.
Funny enough in my early 20's I visited Boston with my boyfriend and he dragged me into what he thought was a yarn store but was in fact a uber fancy knitted things store with like thee most exquisite and expensive cashmere I've too this day seen or felt in my life. The first sweater I touched was like 2000 so I was like oppp nope hands to myself we need to leave immediately and said something like that to my bf as well cause he always has to touch everything. The clerk overheard us and was like you don't have to buy but please enjoy browsing our store, you haven't even felt our fluffiest throws. So we stayed and felt up these throws made from ethically sourced rabbit hair that felt like petting a chinchilla.
OMG came here to talk about this! In TN there’s a yarn shop where I felt so damn uncomfortable because of the stalking around the store that I ended up just buying the one thing I needed and practically running out.
It has been years since this happened but just thinking back on it I can still feel the awkward / embarrassed feelings all over again.
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u/Bookslutforsmut 16h ago
Having flashbacks to being being 15 with 25 dollars to spend in a boutique yarn shop. 😫 I wanted a really nice yarn for once to make a gift for someone I really liked and a clerk literally told me to stop touching all "the natural fibers, they pick up the oils from your skin." I was so humiliated but couldn't just leave because that felt like it'd be even worse. The clerk came over and started slowly rearranging everything I came close to.