100% cashmere

to justify the expense

i didn't think anything was expensive in ASDA.

Depends who's paying the price - in this case, it's the hideously exploited garment workers, the undernourished Chinese goats (yep that's goat cashmere, not sheep, we all know how inferior even good goat cashmere is, & trust me this is NOT good goat cashmere.) & the farmers faced with desertification after their rush for the cashmere cash crop has over-grazed their land to the point of collapse, with knock-on negative effects for subsistence farmers, other cash crops & wildlife.
The garment covers were used in the past to protect the cashmere from pulls, now it's essential to stop the easy piling (bobbling) by which one can identify third-rate cashmere.

Good cashmere is worth the price; with care it will last for decades; the stuff flooding into Asda/WalMart, TK Maxx, Costco, etc, is ethical garbage and a crap product.

so that's why!

thanks, i did have my suspicions...

I agree with hildegard wholeheartedly and am glad to see people thinking about the effects of our consumer choices. If I'm not mistaken, and I realize that this isn't the point, but all cashmere comes from goats. It's the fleece that is found under the guard hairs.