Classic Dress Goes Eco-Conscious in Organic Cotton Fabric
Dress it up or dress it down with a silk-wool shawl or a focal-point necklace. It's hard to believe the sale price is less than $40. Buy another one in peppercorn dark brown while the price is right. ExOfficio specializes in environmentally-friendly clothing. T-shirts and tops come in many styles. Some of the fabrics are sweat resistant, insect repellent, and offer sun protection. The craze for organic cotton fabric ensures cotton’s place as the comfort food of fabrics. Cotton remains king. TheTruth about Cotton ProductionOrganic cotton fabric succeeds despite tremendous odds. The cotton plans is attacked by hundreds of insects, bacteria, and viruses, reports Encyclopedia Online. Cotton uses 11 percent of the pesticides used in the world but just 2.4 percent of cultivated land, according to the Sustainable Cotton organization.T-Shirt Gets Gussied Up in Satin
The (not organic) cotton T-shirt gets a dressy make-over with an overlay of tonal satin at Soft Surroundings. The deep scoop neckline and long sleeves are chic for fall and winter. Click on the photo to find more information at Soft Surroundings, which carries most items in misses, women's, tall, and petite sizes. This top comes in several colors. Discover web exclusives at SoftSurroundings.com!
Silk and Cotton Shawl Illustrates the Latest in Fiber Technologies
Wrapping silk around a cotton fiber creates a fabric with the luster of silk that is durable and washable (Textile World, Nov/Dec 2005). Cotton-silk blends are a great choice for office or party summer fashion. Silk and cotton shawl, 'Fall Foliage' Designer Thanyarat Sananpanich has created an elegant shawl using silkscreen technique for the motif of fall foliage drifting across the fabric. Fringe finishes the original wrap. A 20 per cent wool-cotton fabric is softer than pure wool and washable – yet has the rich look and feel of woolen fiber. The shrug, left, uses pima cotton (the type grown in the U.S.), with a touch of baby alpaca wool and nylon. No wonder Tonia Cook Kimbrough declared, “Cotton is the single best-selling fiber in America today” (Wearables, Oct. 2008, p. 29). Cotton fabric breathes, feels good against our skin, can be dyed into a rainbow of colors, is easily washed and ironed without any high-tech or chemical treatments.
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