Lululemon Run: Swiftly Tech SS - Clarity Grey Lilac Snow

I thought I was done with buying short sleeve Swiftly Tech shirts from Lululemon, because I have enough, and because many "different" colors look the same in the silverescent material to me.  But yesterday when I saw that Clarity Grey Lilac Snow one, I couldn't resist. 

This photo makes the shirt look rather washed out.  In person, the lilac snow portion of the sleeves are much more pink.  But still a soft pink.  It's so pretty!  I also thought I only liked solid colored Swiftly Tech shirts until I saw this one too.   I actually do like baseball style shirts, but I guess the previous versions I've seen didn't really impress me.  This one has the perfect amount of "girly sporty".  I also love the contrast stitchings in violaceous (?).  I do kind of wish though that the Clarity Grey portion was a really really soft pink color instead!  How pretty would a light pink be in this material!  That would just be heavenly.

Well I don't think I need to profess my love for the Swiftly Tech shirts more than I already have many times before.  But I know some people were concerned with the new Swiftly shirts made in Sri Lanka vs. the old ones made in Israel.  I think mainly the concern is that the new material feels not as soft, has less silver in it, and is more stiff / less stretchy.  I have quite a few older Swiftly shirts made in Israel, and I have one Swiftly made in Sri Lanka before I bought this one, a long sleeve in Haze.  While the difference in feel doesn't make too much of a difference for me personally, I did notice that the Clarity Grey Lilac Snow one is much much softer than the haze one, and stretchier.  But I still have the tear out tag of the haze one attached, and it shows the exact same composition as the Clarity Grey.  Weird.  I would even say the Clarity Grey is actually softer than the older made in Israel versions.  

However, it looks like the knit is pretty different.  I could tell right after I got it today.  Upon closer inspection, I noticed that there are now faint horizontal lines in the knit, whereas before they were vertical lines.  I took a photo of side by side comparison of the Clarity Grey on left, and my Silver / Potion purple on right (sorry for the wrinkles, I forgot I had this shirt and it was all the way on the bottom of the drawer!).  Since these are both very light, and very similar colors, it makes it easier to see.  The picture is taken of the exact same spots on these shirts - the front left side of the shirts starting from right below the armpit.

See, even with my iPhone cam, you can clearly tell the horizontal lines in the new one and the much fainter vertical lines in the older one.  It also seemed to me that the vents are bigger on the newest one as well.

Then I pulled out my haze one that's also made in Sri Lanka, and here you can see that the knit was pretty similar to the Israeli version:

Ok, then I pulled out a few more older Israeli versions, and it seems that they've always been very thin and almost imperceptible vertical lines, and the knitting pattern has always been consistent.  This is the first time I've seen the wider horizontal line.

From left to right:  Clarity Grey Lilac Snow (Sri Lanka), Silver / Potion Purple (Israel), Lagoon (Israel), Haze (Sri Lanka), Fruity Tootie (Israel), Lavender (Israel)

I'm not pointing it out because it's a bad thing.  I just noticed it and thought it was curious.  I don't know if this is the reason that this shirt is much softer, or it's simply because different colors feel differently?  Either way, it's not that noticeable unless you are inspecting it up close like I did.  I really like the feel of the material and the color combo of the new shirt, so I'm definitely happy and will be keeping it for sure.