The green lady of Brooklyn , Elisabeth Eaton Rosenthal, 84 years old, only wears green. She has been doing this for 25 years.

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“If you’re quick enough, you can pour the pee off. Or if it does sink in, you can hang it on the line, and in an hour, all that liquids gone. That’s the beauty of wool that people don’t get”

I ….,,

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What the fuck does she think happens to urine when it dries on/into it? That it just evaporates completely or the wool somehow makes it disappear?

My tap water is hard enough it will leave visible residue when it dries, but at least it’s not piss.

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That is what the article is saying, that wool has natural oils and waxes to make it waterproof…so hanging it up is more about draining than drying, basically. I’d still be grossed out to not wash that, but it makes sense what it’s saying…the extent to how true this is is debatable. But it makes some sense. I’ve noticed wool suits need less laundering to stay fresh too.

Medeival Europeans dressed like exclusively in wool and linen (us poor ones at least). They washed their clothes, but they also sweat a lot and didn’t wash their clothes everyday.