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Questions about this piece
What is the difference between a pareo and a sarong?
There isn't one, really — they're two words for the same thing. Pareo is the Tahitian word that carried into Hawaii; sarong comes from Malay and is the one most American shops print on a tag. Either way you're buying a rectangle of light cloth with no seams to step into, no buttons and no elastic, which is what makes it so adaptable. This one is sold as a pareo, and where you put the knot is the whole design.
Is rayon the same as viscose?
They are, yes — two names for one fiber, made by dissolving wood pulp and spinning it back out as thread. Rayon is the American term, viscose the one you'll see on European and imported labels. That's worth knowing when you're comparing wraps, because a tag reading viscose isn't telling you anything different from one reading rayon. This pareo is 100% soft spun rayon, so whatever you've learned about washing and wearing a viscose piece applies here too.
How do you wash this pareo?
Hand wash it in cold water and hang it to dry. No machine, no dryer — heat and a spin cycle are what pull rayon out of shape, and there's no waistband, seam or elastic in a 67-by-43-inch rectangle to hold it square if that happens. Washed by hand it dries fast on a line, since it's a single layer of cloth with nothing to trap water.





