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Old 07-27-2009, 05:49 PM   #18
Mardelin
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Originally Posted by Brooklynn View Post
A cotton coat is thick and wooley...to get an idea of a cotton coat just get a cotton ball and feel it. It's thick wavey and matts very easliy very thick and well cottoney. I have found on my brookie who has a cotton coat it doesn't really break easy but matts very easy and thick and wooley...a modified silk in my opinion is more on the silk side but is considered mixed with a soft which comes from a cotton coat. In my opinion to get a soft coat it's more on the cotton side than silk and a modified silk coat is more on the silk side but thicker than a true silk coat hence more silk than soft but less silky feeling.

Think of what silk fabric feels like vs. a cotton fabric....then feel a cotton ball and feel the difference. This is the best description I can come up with to get a feel for the differences in texture.
One more thing to add; Cotton coats do not reflect light as silk coats do.

If you see a silk coat in the dark it shimmers.
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