To the news To the News Archive Please feel free to submit useful information to the editor for sharing with other costumers. There are many things that happen in the world of textiles and fashion that effect our ability to make costumes. Very few working costumers have the time to constantly cull the news reports to find out this information. Costumers are dependant on resources available in the retail and wholesale market place.
Fashion trends come and go.
So do textiles, which also serve the fashion trends. The editor here has spent years watching the market and fashion trends and the government regulations and social trends on an international level in relation to how they effect our abilties to do our job. There was the year back in the 1970's when the Japanese cornered the cotton market. The reports were that they had so many cotton bales in Japan that they were piled 2 stories high with plastic tarp over them on the docs. It was almost impossible to get muslin, let alone inexpensive muslin to use for costume making.