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Article: Price increases in fiber could hit '95 apparel.
- Article from:
- WWD
- Article date:
- April 19, 1994
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NEW YORK -- The reasons range from increased demand and adverse weather conditions to government controls and a lack of growing acreage.
Whatever the explanation, the most dramatic price increases in a decade -- 10 to 35 percent in 12 months -- for cotton, wool, linen and silk will have a ripple effect throughout the textile and apparel industries for spring-summer 1995.
The explosive price increases could also have some SA firms looking to use more blends of natural and man-made fibers -- particularly polyester and rayon -- to keep their own prices in line for spring-summer 1995.
Since lsat March, the most commonly used grade of U.S. uplands ...