Purchased to decorate the holidays, these elastic have quite fulfilled their purpose. But after a month, they began to crack (as if they were cooked by the heat that we have not had this summer!) And the various objects have "unraveled" gradually. All elastic, wherever they come from, are they the same? Or the quality of these is it really worse? I do not know. Still, it's also the kind of thing that does not last forever anyway ....