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who’ve been producing cotton shirting since 1796

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Prato, Italy sizeguide-loafers and Milan's presence as theThe first time I heard fabric merchants mention the word Prato it was used disparagingly, condescendingly contrasted against the mighty mills of Biella. By and large, Biella is where the behemoths of Italian fabric production reside, reliant on an enormous supply of Australian and South African wool. Vertically integrated, they control aspects of this process from thousands of miles away, and also the local elements: washing, spinning, weaving, dyeing