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Clothing Inc.

Just take a stroll through here, and you'll realize that without polymers, you'd have no clothes at all (!) let alone the quality merchandise found here. The polymers in clothes can come from plant materials, synthetics, or even proteins like silk and wool. The one thing that most of the polymers in clothes have in common is that they are fibers.

First of all, these blue jeans and t-shirts are made of cotton, which is mostly cellulose.

These are examples of retrowear. It's popular among kids who were too young to remember how horrible it really was to live during the tasteless seventies. Hopefully this stuff will soon have gone out of style TWICE. This kind of clothing is often made of polyester.

All of the clothing here is made of polymers in the form of fibers.

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