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Tania Velasquez
ENGL1301
Professor Amy Sharp
November 22, 2013

Environmental impacts of textile industry

Have you ever had a chance to think how clothes can destroy our environment? The textile industry covers a lot from business around the world. You can find textile industry in the manufacturing of fabrics, the different chemical companies that make synthetic fibers and all resultant products that you can find in your own furniture, cars, and of course all clothes that you wear. Textiles are everywhere, but one of the strongest businesses in the world is fashion, works by hand with textiles. Take a look of how fashion can lose its “glamour”.
“The textile production industry is one of the oldest and most technologically complex of all industries,” says Michael I. Greenberg, and he is right (574). Textiles have been present in humans almost since its creation. Cavemen, for example, wore animal skins and garments made of herbs and leaves (Miller par. 2). The textile industry began as a cottage industry. For the Industrial Revolution between the 17th and 19th centuries, textiles became an industrial practice. From this revolution, a series of inventions are created for the industry. The first invent for this time, was the flying shuttle. John Kay created this machine on 1733, it allowed double the capacity of weaving and spinning process was performed with a spinning wheel (Solarte par. 1-2).
While the textile industry grew, so did fashion. In the 19th century, fashion magazines—such as the French La Mode Illustrée, the BritishLady’s Realm, and the American Godey’s Lady’s Book—proliferated and flourished. They featured articles, hand-coloured illustrations (known as fashion plates), and advertisements, fashion magazines. Together with other developments such as the sewing machine, department stores, and ready-to-wear clothing produced in standard sizes, these magazines played a significant role in promoting the democratization of fashion in



Cited: Greenberg, Michael I., ed. Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Toxicology. Philidelphia: Mosby, Inc., 2003.

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