You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

DO YOU THINK POLYESTER WILL MAKE A
COMEBACK?
 
�       The ear­li­est evi­dence of human cloth­ing comes from Moroc­co and is
dat­ed between 120,000 to 90,000 years ago. Some schol­ars believe
some cloth­ing may even be old­er. 
 
�       A tex­tile is any flex­i­ble mate­r­i­al that is made by com­bin­ing threads.
Tex­tiles can be made from nat­ur­al or syn­thet­ic mate­ri­als, and nat­ur­al
mate­ri­als can come from plants or ani­mals.  
 
�            Many peo­ple believe that all poly­esters are syn­thet­ic, but many
actu­al­ly include nat­u­ral­ly occur­ring chem­i­cals. Poly­esters are defined
as poly­mer mate­ri­als that con­tain a spe­cif­ic chem­i­cal com­pound
known as ester.  
 
�            Cot­ton is the most com­mon­ly used nat­ur­al fiber in cloth­ing
through­out the world. Poly­ester is the most pro­duced syn­thet­ic fiber
and the most used fiber over­all, so poly­ester nev­er real­ly went away!  
 
�            The 1980s had many unique styles that may or may not make a
come­back. Vel­cro straps in place of shoelaces are still yet to make a
reap­pear­ance. 
 
�       Linen is a tex­tile made from the flax plant. It was com­mon­ly used for
cloth­ing in the ancient world in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Lev­ant. 
 
�            Near­ly two mil­lion peo­ple in the US are employed in the fash­ion
indus­try. Inter­est­ing­ly, 340,000 are employed in fash­ion in Ger­many
and France but 550,000 work in fash­ion in the UK. 
 
�            The first silk road era began in the late 2nd cen­tu­ry BCE and last­ed
until the mid-3rd cen­tu­ry CE. The pri­ma­ry states were Han Chi­na,
Parthi­an Per­sia, Rome, and the Kushan Empire.  
 
�            Dur­ing the Weimar Peri­od of Ger­man his­to­ry (the 1920s), Berlin
rivaled Paris and New York as a pre­mier fash­ion cap­i­tal.  
 
�       But­tons are always on the right side of men’s shirts, while they’re on
the left for women. The rea­son for this isn’t clear.  
 
�            That tiny extra front pock­et on your jeans was used to hold pock­et
watch­es. When the first Levi jeans were sold in 1879, most men
car­ried pock­et watch­es. 
 
�            The aver­age Amer­i­can throws out about 82 pounds of tex­tiles per
year. Those clothes usu­al­ly end up in land­fills, where an arti­cle of
cloth­ing can take 40 years to decom­pose.  
 
�       Span­ish com­pa­ny Indi­tex was the world’s largest cloth­ing retail­er in
sales with $28.89 bil­lion in rev­enue. Zara is its flag­ship store.  
 
�            The ear­li­est wool tex­tiles in Europe date to about 1,500 BCE, but it
wasn’t until the ear­ly Mid­dle Ages (400s-1100s CE) that wool
became a pop­u­lar mate­r­i­al for cloth­ing.  
 
�            A sur­vey revealed that the aver­age woman hasn’t worn $550 worth
of cloth­ing they own or about 20% of their wardrobe. Inter­est­ing­ly,
shoes are the num­ber one unworn item.  
 
�            The tur­ban has been a tra­di­tion­al head­wear in the Mid­dle East and
South Asia for cen­turies. In the 1800s, though, the cylin­dri­cal shaped
hat with the tas­sel known as the fez became pop­u­lar in the Ottoman
Empire.  
 
�            In the US, a hab­er­dash­er is a retail­er who sells men’s cloth­ing. A
hab­er­dash­ery is a loca­tion where the cloth­ing is sold and may employ
a tai­lor for cus­tom fit­tings.  
 
�       On aver­age, Amer­i­cans spend about 3.5% of their income on clothes.
This may seem like a lot, but it’s down quite a bit from the 11.5% of
the 1950s.  
 
�            In 2021, North Kore­an dic­ta­tor, Kim Jong-un, banned skin­ny jeans,
mul­lets, and brand­ed t‑shirts to stop for­eign influ­ence. The mul­let