Milan's paisley house sent its signature out sun-bleached this season. Italian women saw it coming.
Boteh, buta, a curled drop
Born in Persia and India, made famous on Kashmir wool shawls, and carried west by European merchants by the 1600s.
Italians call it cachemire
English took its name from a Scottish mill town that copied the shawls. Italian still remembers Kashmir.
Etro, Halo, faded
Etro has worn paisley since 1981. This season its prints came out sun-bleached and barely visible.
One print, one plain color
Never two prints. Soft colors over bright ones. And beside it, a plain color lifted from inside the pattern.
From Maria's edit
If a paisley scarf is folded in a drawer at home, this is its season. Let it look a little faded.