By R’ Yosef Stolz – Lakewood Shatnez Laboratory
A blue and white woman’s J. Crew (China) sweater, bought at the J. Crew store near Monsey, New York was found to be shatnez.
Shatnez is the prohibition in halacha derived from the Torah that prohibits the wearing of a fabric containing both wool and linen.
Composed of 2-ply yarns, the dark blue ply was 100% Wool and the white ply was 100% Linen.
The label itself listed 55% Merino Wool, 45% Linen, however the consumer did not discover this until after bringing it home and removing all the tags.
R’ Chaim Rosenberg of the Monsey Shatnez Laboratory asked to remind observant Jews to make sure to read labels of clothing before purchasing.
How about wool and cotton, is that considered shaatnez?
Just chekd my J.Crew sweater !!!Its Wool & Linen!! Thankyou COL!!!
half of all J.Crews winter wordrobe was Shatnez (wool and linen) this year. Alot of sweaters and round neck pullovers were wool and linen.Todays young teens and young adults are “all out to lunch”. Just a very few short years ago, noone bought an item of clothes before checking the label. I always check the inside label to make sure there is no mixture of wool and linen before I go to the cashier counter.
if you just in general check the tag is that enough on clothing? thanks
i appsolutly love j crew my favorite store in the whole universe and i just bought a bunch of pesach clothing there i hope i can still wear them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dont be so hard on people #1 – not everyone is as astute as you are to check the tags in clothing – and maybe not everyone is familiar with the materials of shatnez.
And the point of the article is: Check the label 🙂
Hhahha…I hope they didnt have to check to hard on that sweater.
well duh yeah i was thinking the same thing. the point of checking for shatnez is ONLY if the label DOESNT mention wool and linen
the label itself says it is shatnez…