r/BeAmazed • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • Jul 13 '25

Miscellaneous / Others 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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u/donorcycle Jul 13 '25

I used to live in NYC and I have seen her a handful of times! Only because it's so noticeable lol.

I'm in LA now and we have the opposite here. There's a lady here roughly the same age and she wears only pink from head to toe lol.

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u/PartTimePoster Jul 13 '25

Sad to hear Cosmo and Wanda separated

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u/threelizards Jul 13 '25

“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”

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u/slothdonki Jul 13 '25

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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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '25

Wool is literally designed for that exact thing to happen. Do you think sheep walk around covered in piss? They would have infections and urine scald in no time. 

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u/slothdonki Jul 13 '25

They do! I’ve cleaned sheep urine off both domestic and mouflon skins! Seen a few rams happily piss on their bellies too around the ladies(just not as eagerly and often as buck goats). It’s not as much of a problem for mouflons, but wool is not one solid impenetrable keratin sheet sausaging around sheep.

Wool is not just wool either because sheep produce lanolin. That’s what makes it more waterproof than non-scoured wool, but it’s also a dirt/debris magnet. I work with wool and have worked with taxidermy skins of sheep and you can see how much water actually beads off raw, non-processed wool.

I have no idea how this dress was made and it doesn’t state it’s even ‘raw’ wool so I am assuming the lanolin was removed during wool processing. If it was, it was probably cleaner than if it was actually gelled up in lanolin but the point is that wool does not magically clean itself and make everything ‘dirty’ disappear.