| Most clothing is produced on demand, using microfactories in the actual store and working from a library of current fashion patterns. Major designers sell expensive, one-of-a-kind pattern collections to their most exclusive clients, who use home "microfackts" to whip up a wardrobe whenever they need one. Some people buy or create libraries of fashions and run them off at boutiques similar to twentieth century desktop publishing service bureaus. Stylistically, there's been a tremendous rush back to what is now called "retro-flash": natural fabric clothing of simple cuts and styles. Jeans, leathers, cotton and wools are "in"; the heavy duty synthetics of the early '20s are "out". Even synthetic materials attempt to retrain the look and feel of the "real thing". In general, assume that if you can imagine it, there's somebody out there with a "microfact" that will make it for you...
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