Full disclosure: this film was produced by the Cotton Producer's Institute, so it may not Ben fully objective. But this documentary reveals the wonder of a life once so easily enjoyed by those happy people in Greenwich Village who so innocently and unabashedly wore cotton. "Cotton's casual appeal is in step with carefree living," the filmmakers fearlessly proclaim. "Worldly worries are laid aside, and time is spent on the home, making repairs, minding the laundry, browsing through antique shops in search of a possible bargain, or shopping in the world-famous Bleeker Street Market." Woven for the Now Generation, cotton, in this nearly forgotten world of wonder, was "as ruggedly appealing as the great outdoors, yet sophisticatedly shaped for the modes of cosmopolitan life." And what a wondrous life it was, filled with joyful mysteries, since forgotten, of truly carefree lives of personal fulfillment and human engagement only possible with superior fabric.
Alas, though the filmmakers hubristically proclaimed that golden era was fresh as today, and eternal as tomorrow, our world is far more circumscribed today, bound in other fabrics; and we live in a world of faded glory. But look back, see for yourself, how life once was lived, and yearn again for the beneficent touch of that most carefree of fabrics. For surely, what we once had and lost, we might regain in time, with the aid of this historic record to guide our way!