In these past recent years the media has been urging the population to go green, buy a Prius, support natural entities, and swap to cotton made products; due to challenging scares like global warming. However, now that the general public has taken notice of this need to swap their polyester (a man-made fiber that is resistant to crease, shrinkage, stretching, and can be blended with other fibers to create different texture and surfaces) and other synthetic fibers for cotton, cotton will no longer be eagerly available, and of the cotton that is available, it would cost more than when it was advertised by the media, urging for its consumption.
Due to recent disasters, most likely a result of global warming, floods and bad climate in general has left the market in a cotton shortage; as reported by the New York Times. Thusly, stores, brands, and industry companies are looking to supplement a certain amount of cotton with polyester fibers – or other man-made fibers – to create a cotton blended fiber/textile, as well as to increase the prices of their cotton products. Wesley R. Card, president and chief executive of the Jones Group, who backs brands such as Nine West and Anne Klein, has agreed that cotton clothing (and possibly other products that involves the use of cotton, because the cotton crisis effects other industries besides the clothing industry) will become more costly. Levi’s, a brand and company known for their denim, who consumes a large amount of cotton in its production process of jeans, has already reported a price increase and is considering another price increase on their cotton products. All in all, the production industries will, in the near future, be consuming more man-made fibers, rather than natural fibers. So be prepared to wear polyester.
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