GR translation: bright-Swiss or crystalline season

[Paul Mackin]

On 9/6/2011 12:10 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P134.12-13  None of your bright-Swiss or crystalline season here, but darkly billowed in the day...
>
> What is "bright-Swiss or crystalline season"?  Is it about weather or about fashion?
>
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or possible cuckoo clocks, watches, cheese.

But seriously, I imagine it refers to luxurious, more fashionable 
fabrics, sheer materials, silk chiffon and the like, as compared to run 
of the mill middle class wedding gown materials.

Both swiss and crystalline are terms describing fabric.

P