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Conventional shoe sizing, built around foot length, fails to account for the width variation among women's feet. In Australia, most women wear a shoe size that differs from the one their foot length indicates, and those who size up may be compensating for widths that shoes sold in only one width cannot accommodate. Under both US and EU sizing, the shoe size most participants chose differed from the one indicated by measured foot length.

The environmental debate around fast fashion has long turned on a single question: cotton or polyester, which is greener. A comprehensive lifecycle assessment now suggests the question itself was misplaced. Tracing garments from raw material through disposal, the research finds transport mode and garment lifespan reshape emissions by margins that no fibre substitution can match. Polyester T-shirts emit 9.62 kg CO₂ eq per unit while cotton emits 6.1 kg, but that comparison misreads the problem.

Since 2025, the Group has procured 85,600 MWh of I-RECs and green electricity, offsetting 45,200 tCO2e. The Group aims to maximise renewable electricity coverage by 2030. Crystal International Group HONG KONG: Crystal International Group Limited is expediting its renewable energy transition across global operations through a combination of onsite rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, green electricity purchases, and International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-RECs).

The Delhi launch follows O&Y’s first store in Noida, marking another milestone for the brand as it expands its physical retail presence. Office & You NEW DELHI, INDIA: Office & You (O&Y), the homegrown workwear label, celebrated the opening of its 2nd store at DLF Midtown Plaza, Moti Nagar, Delhi with an intimate high tea that brought together an eclectic mix of professionals from across Delhi.

Organised across nine chapters and three sections, Gone with the Seam opens in the pre-dawn buses of the garment belts and closes on the shop floor. AI-Generated / Reve BENGALURU: The garment workforce that stitches Bengaluru's apparel exports — overwhelmingly female, largely migrant, and central to an industry housed in a state officially designated India's garment capital — has been rendered structurally invisible by the very city it helped build.

Biofabricated materials have become a fixture at trade shows and sustainability conferences, presented as the next chapter in clothing. Fungi, bacteria and agricultural waste now yield fibres and leather-like sheets with unusual properties. Yet wardrobes remain dominated by cotton, polyester, wool and leather, and the distance between laboratory promise and retail reality is widening.

Advanced textiles that monitor health, motion and environment are moving out of laboratories and toward retail shelves. These hybrid garments carry conductive metals, mixed polymers and embedded electronics that existing recycling systems cannot handle. Regulation, disassembly standards and material transparency must arrive before commercial rollout begins in earnest across global consumer markets and outpaces the infrastructure meant to contain it.

Many consumers assume that natural fibres are automatically kinder to the environment than synthetic alternatives. A new systematic review of textile chemistry complicates this rule of thumb, showing that the environmental cost of a garment depends less on fibre origin than on the dyes, finishes and performance treatments applied throughout production, wear, disposal and recycling stages.

Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics Autumn Edition 2026 is under way at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from 25 to 27 August, welcoming buyers, exhibitors and delegates for a three-day sourcing and networking programme. Fashion Forward, Performance Textiles, Sustainability and Textile Future organise the exhibitor showcase this edition.

VIATT serves as a sourcing hub connecting regional manufacturers with global suppliers and buyers, with the 2026 edition welcoming nearly 460 exhibitors from 21 countries and regions and over 17,000 visits from 54 represented markets. Messe Frankfurt (HK) HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Vietnam continues to strengthen its standing as a strategic hub in the global textile supply chain, positioning itself at the forefront of industry upgrading in Southeast Asia.