Women breathed a blow of abatement back adaptable jeans became fashionable, but some important players in the cardboard money apple weren't so happy.
All U.S. money has been printed on the aforementioned affectionate of cotton-blend cardboard back the backward 1800s. And Crane, a Boston-based company, has been the go-to antecedent of this cardboard for added than one hundred years.
According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, dollar bills are fabricated with cardboard that is 75% affection and 25% linen. About 30% of the affection Crane alloyed into its bill cardboard acclimated to appear from denim debris from the apparel industry, Jerry Rudd, the company's managing administrator of all-around sourcing, told the Washington Post. The rest, he said, was from added alone textiles.
Then the '90s hit. Spandex and Lycra were added to jeans to accomplish them stretchy, and the pants absent their denim purity.
George and Ben, it turns out, don't attending acceptable in Spandex. In fact, a distinct cilia of it can abort a accumulation of money paper, the Washington Post reported.
By the aboriginal 2000s, jeans were basically abortive for Crane because about every brace had some affectionate of stretch, Rudd told the Washington Post.
"There's no denim articles out there that we can acquisition that's basically not contaminated," he said.
So will the U.S. government put a ban on the assembly of angular jeans in adjustment to abide press cardboard money?
Don't worry, Rudd said your Spandex-blend pants are safe. Crane now gets its affection from "the accustomed cilia itself" and skips the bolt average man.
vtaylor@nydailynews.com
