Oh yes, new preferences: The perfect resources for wearable items: Probably cotton. Soft, breathable, easily washed,  the most commonly  used natural-fiber  today. Can be purchased at any neighborhood store.  But I think I rather have silk. Particularly hand painted.

PS - I have no qualifications in the field, except for being a consumer, but my mother was a professional dress-maker, does that give my opinion extra weight?

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
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