What are dress shirts made of?
Dress shirts take cotton yarn, adhesive, sewing thread and button directly. Trace them back and you pass 31 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
How dress shirts are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Raw cotton through cotton yarn
- Water through button
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Air through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
- Corn through button, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Limestone through button, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through button, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through button, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 27 things
Chemicals and fuels 19
Paraffin waxEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenNaphthaBenzenePara-xyleneEthylene glycolTolueneOxygen gasCarbon dioxide