Clothing materials

Common clothing materials include natural fibers, which are renewable, biodegradable, such as:

• Cloth, typically made of viscose cotton, flax, wool, ramie, silk
• Down for down-filled parkas
• Fur
• Leather
• Denim

And synthetic fibers which are man made and not biodegradable, made primarily from petrochemicals:

• Spandex
• Polyester
• Nylon

Less-common clothing materials include:

• Bamboo
• Hemp
• Jute
• Lyocell
• Recycled paper
• PVC-Polyvinyl chloride
• Rayon
• Rubber
• Recycled or Recovered Cotton
• Recycled PET
• Soy
• Tyvek
• Other Natural Fibers

Reinforcing materials such as wood, bone, plastic and metal may be used in fasteners or to stiffen garments.