Red Hip-Length Sweater

My sister Susan actually said that she liked this sweater! It took me entirely by surprise. Usually I get theses funny grins and shakes of the head. She doesn't like to come right out and tell me....."Sister, you look like a weirdo!" (her style is much more conservative then mine). After she gave me the thumbs up, I had to get it!
I used to not like the color red at all, and now I've really no idea why. It's such a
pumped color, I'm becoming very fond of it.
A person can always have to much of a good thing, but some bright colors mixed with some more neutral ones makes an outfit so much more interesting. Of course my motto is "rules are meant to be broken" so I may contradict myself in the future (but don't mistake rules for laws, and there's not to many of them).
This sweater is made out of ramie and
cotton, which I really like. I'd been wondering what ramie exactly is (I did know it was a plant), so I checked on Wikipedia, and apparently it's native to eastern Asia, and is one of the oldest fiber crops, having been used for at least six thousand years. And now I know.
Anyways back to my lovely sweater, it has two rows of cable stitch going down the front at each shoulder and has a nice long torso
ending just below the hips, which kinda gives it a unique look. The only thing that I'm not entirely happy with...is the buttons, I think I might swap them out some time.
Also a note about natural fibers, I find, that they seem to hold their color a lot better and not get all the little pill things like synthetic fibers sometimes do. Of course both natural and synthetic are susceptible to getting holes. And I would
say that the synthetic fibers are a little more stain resistant.