More than once their composition provoked comments from Conseil. I informed him that they were made from the smooth, silken filaments with which the fan mussel, a type of seashell quite abundant along Mediterranean beaches, attaches itself to rocks.
Le expliqué que nuestras ropas estaban hechas con los filamentos brillantes y sedosos que unen a las rocas a los pínnidos, moluscos bivalvos muy abundantes a orillas del Mediterráneo.