Will Haute Couture Eliminate The Ostentatiously Wealthy In America?
by Georgia Woods
Catalytic: def. Causing A Change
We all want the latest stuff. We want to dress to fit in with our friends and our
co-workers. We want to belong and we want to be trendy or elegantly conservative or just
casual but smart. About 10% of Americans are in an income bracket that allows them
to purchase the best and the latest available: hand made, custom made, and made to order
from the costliest materials around.
What if a danger lurks within these materials that we can't see or smell or feel? And
what if that danger may not show up for 50 years? And what if that danger could
affect our unborn child or even cause sterility and infertility? What if we developed
strange ailments and inexplicable derangement or what if those we know were afflicted?
What if, in the throes of vague complaints, we were then sent to fertility clinics or
therapy sessions or given prescriptions for various anti-depressants? Health, both
physical and mental, is something to be guarded and protected and in our current
frenzied economic climate particularly if the guardians of the consumer seem to have
taken a break it can be difficult to do.
Asbestos is a known danger to most of us. We know it is dangerous and that we
shouldn't be around it and some of us know that the EPA has said that there is no
safe level of exposure. But few of us really understand why it is so dangerous. The
reason is that the particles of asbestos are so tiny - what's called a nano meter size -
that they can pass barriers within the body that bacteria and many viruses and other
comparatively large particles can't. One time exposure to a small amount can be enough to
cause disease and death even as long as 50 years later.
Depleted Uranium - DU - is another example of a nanometer size particle causing a
number of strange ailments when inhaled through the use of weapons that aerosolize
the uranium. A cloud of this aerosolized substance can also be airborne propelled by
wind and affect people not in the original explosion site.
Nano technology begun in earnest about 10 to 15 years ago is currently a frenzied
activity involving patents, research, creation and manufacture of designer particles so
small they can enter the blood and the brain and organs and the womb. These particles
are currently used in a wide range of products from sunscreen to cosmetics to cloud
seeding to chaff to underwear to sportswear to electronic gadgets to medical applications
to food preservation etc. The list is endless. Haute couture - fashion for the rich -
has not been left out. Examples of items currently on the market are an $8000 tie made
with gold nano particles and a dress made with material costing $10,000 a yard made with
silver nano particles and an exclusive line of wool from New Zealand sold in a high end
London retail house made with silver and gold nano particles. Sportswear and underwear
made with silver nano particles is also available mass produced on the internet comparatively
cheaply.
Why worry about gold and silver? We've used them in jewelry forever and they haven't
harmed anyone. A nano size particle of gold is no longer the same as gold. A certain
size of nano has a ruby red color and another size of nano gold is charcoal black. There
are other properties that are different as well but the main difference is that your gold
necklace cannot enter your blood and your silver pendant cannot be inhaled and find its'
way into your womb. But these things have been tested right and they're safe? No and
no - researchers and scientists and consumer safety advocates and environmental groups
have called for tests and have called for caution but the products are already on the
market.
Metals accumulate in the body. They are a danger when small enough to be inhaled. I
recently read a study where pathologists in Japan exhumed Samurai bodies and discovered
unbelievable lead levels particularly in the children. The next generation is now
hypothesized to have failed because of mental retardation brought on by lead. The lead,
a metal, is said to have entered the children via the mother who used a lead based
cosmetic in vogue at the time in order to keep up with the latest among the upper
classes.
Most of us, when there is a windfall, find ourselves wanting to purchase something like
a designer dress that is the latest and unavailable to a large segment of the population.
Many nations are urging testing and caution with nano particles. Health authorities
are urging testing and regulation. The few tests that have been done are scary. And
this is another disease that can be a slow, long death taking many years to show up,
however, not in the children or lack of children.
Are products you purchase going to specify that they contain nano? No, not usually.
Some will say nano; some will say ultra fine; some will say colloidal and other things.
Currently there is an effort underway to eliminate the labeling nano-free on sunscreen,
the industry believing that this will create a fearful environment toward nano particles
in products.
Georgia Woods,February 12, 2012
My Blog- http://gloryrhodes.blogspot.com
co-workers. We want to belong and we want to be trendy or elegantly conservative or just
casual but smart. About 10% of Americans are in an income bracket that allows them
to purchase the best and the latest available: hand made, custom made, and made to order
from the costliest materials around.
What if a danger lurks within these materials that we can't see or smell or feel? And
what if that danger may not show up for 50 years? And what if that danger could
affect our unborn child or even cause sterility and infertility? What if we developed
strange ailments and inexplicable derangement or what if those we know were afflicted?
What if, in the throes of vague complaints, we were then sent to fertility clinics or
therapy sessions or given prescriptions for various anti-depressants? Health, both
physical and mental, is something to be guarded and protected and in our current
frenzied economic climate particularly if the guardians of the consumer seem to have
taken a break it can be difficult to do.
Asbestos is a known danger to most of us. We know it is dangerous and that we
shouldn't be around it and some of us know that the EPA has said that there is no
safe level of exposure. But few of us really understand why it is so dangerous. The
reason is that the particles of asbestos are so tiny - what's called a nano meter size -
that they can pass barriers within the body that bacteria and many viruses and other
comparatively large particles can't. One time exposure to a small amount can be enough to
cause disease and death even as long as 50 years later.
Depleted Uranium - DU - is another example of a nanometer size particle causing a
number of strange ailments when inhaled through the use of weapons that aerosolize
the uranium. A cloud of this aerosolized substance can also be airborne propelled by
wind and affect people not in the original explosion site.
Nano technology begun in earnest about 10 to 15 years ago is currently a frenzied
activity involving patents, research, creation and manufacture of designer particles so
small they can enter the blood and the brain and organs and the womb. These particles
are currently used in a wide range of products from sunscreen to cosmetics to cloud
seeding to chaff to underwear to sportswear to electronic gadgets to medical applications
to food preservation etc. The list is endless. Haute couture - fashion for the rich -
has not been left out. Examples of items currently on the market are an $8000 tie made
with gold nano particles and a dress made with material costing $10,000 a yard made with
silver nano particles and an exclusive line of wool from New Zealand sold in a high end
London retail house made with silver and gold nano particles. Sportswear and underwear
made with silver nano particles is also available mass produced on the internet comparatively
cheaply.
Why worry about gold and silver? We've used them in jewelry forever and they haven't
harmed anyone. A nano size particle of gold is no longer the same as gold. A certain
size of nano has a ruby red color and another size of nano gold is charcoal black. There
are other properties that are different as well but the main difference is that your gold
necklace cannot enter your blood and your silver pendant cannot be inhaled and find its'
way into your womb. But these things have been tested right and they're safe? No and
no - researchers and scientists and consumer safety advocates and environmental groups
have called for tests and have called for caution but the products are already on the
market.
Metals accumulate in the body. They are a danger when small enough to be inhaled. I
recently read a study where pathologists in Japan exhumed Samurai bodies and discovered
unbelievable lead levels particularly in the children. The next generation is now
hypothesized to have failed because of mental retardation brought on by lead. The lead,
a metal, is said to have entered the children via the mother who used a lead based
cosmetic in vogue at the time in order to keep up with the latest among the upper
classes.
Most of us, when there is a windfall, find ourselves wanting to purchase something like
a designer dress that is the latest and unavailable to a large segment of the population.
Many nations are urging testing and caution with nano particles. Health authorities
are urging testing and regulation. The few tests that have been done are scary. And
this is another disease that can be a slow, long death taking many years to show up,
however, not in the children or lack of children.
Are products you purchase going to specify that they contain nano? No, not usually.
Some will say nano; some will say ultra fine; some will say colloidal and other things.
Currently there is an effort underway to eliminate the labeling nano-free on sunscreen,
the industry believing that this will create a fearful environment toward nano particles
in products.
Georgia Woods,February 12, 2012
My Blog- http://gloryrhodes.blogspot.com
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