Japanese translation needed for Issey Miyake label

[sonia]

Hello! I was excited to find a vintage 80s Issey Miyake dress last week at a new (to me) thrift store. Could one of the Japanese experts here help me with the fabric content label (3rd photo)? Is it 90% wool? What’s the other 10%?
thanks!

http://imgur.com/a/2KSSo

[Amatino]

The translation I got was wool 90%, polyurethane 10%.

That doesn’t make any sense! 🙂

[sonia]

Thanks!
Why do you say that it doesn’t make sense?

[Andrew]

I think in this case it’s a little bit tricky. The 10% is definitely Polyurethane, but the 90% could be wool, but more likely some kind of blend of natural hairs like alpaca/cashmere or something. There is a way to write wool that is very clearly ‘wool’ of a sheep. That is not the character used here.
So I don’t know what the correct translation would be, natural fibers? Natural hair?

[sonia]

Maybe I’ll put “natural fibers, possibly wool” or something like that.

thanks!

[Linda Shields]

Just put wool blend. Or 90% wool blend.

[Pikapop]

I agree with labeling it “wool-blend”. For general purposes 毛 = wool on clothing labels. Yes, technically it could be the hair of an undesignated animal, but agonizing over this is splitting hairs (pun intended) unless there is some significant visual or tactile reason to think otherwise. In my experience on a clothing label it’s almost always referring to sheep’s wool. The 10% does say polyurethane, which would indicate that this is probably washer/dryer safe.

[sonia]

thanks pikapopblog!

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