I am taking yet another break from studying for my Intro to the Fashion Industry midterm exam and thought I would use this opportunity to say thanks to Eli Whitney for inventing the cotton gin in 1792. Without you, man, we wouldn’t be able to call cotton the fabric (or should I say fiber) of our lives. And for those of you not currently enrolled in fashion school – that’s was a lame textiles joke. Cotton isn’t a fabric – it’s a fiber. Teehee Teehee.

I’ll refrain from launching into a rant about the political history of the cotton gin…