TY - BOOK AU - Hancock II,Joseph H. AU - Lewis,Tasha L. AU - Wyatt,Nioka TI - Cotton: Companies, Fashion and the Fabric of Our Lives SN - 9781783206872 AV - HD9875 .C688 2016 U1 - 338.4767721 PY - 2016/// CY - Bristol PB - Intellect, Limited KW - Cotton fabrics-United States KW - Cotton textile industry-United States KW - Fashion merchandising-United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cotton Incorporated -- The Historical Thread of Cotton -- Appalatch: Democratically Disrupting Domestic Production through Innovation -- Made in the USA: Spotlight on Fashions Unlimited -- Study NY's Domestic Organic Cotton Farm-to-Fashion Supply Chain -- Raleigh Denim: Curating Each Detail to Create the Perfect Jeans -- How the Oranges Allowed Lilly to Blossom from Juices to Dresses -- Eileen Fisher: Timeless Visionary -- Trend Forecasting -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Cover N2 - This book explores the importance of cotton as a major resource for US fashion businesses. It is rooted in an investigative research project that deployed undergraduate and graduate students and faculty researchers to US fashion businesses that rely on cotton to understand how the resource is sourced, priced, transported, manipulated and sold UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=7261549 ER -