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[email protected] Volume 4, Issue 1 Av 5770 / July 2010 Reprocessed Shoulder Pads in Tailor Shops R’ Yosef Sayagh (Lakewood Shatnez Laboratory) Inflation is noticeable in How has this affected the tailors had not changed one of two ways: either by shatnez field? their suppliers. The Jewish an increase in the cost of tailoring supply company, What Happens an item, or by a decrease Tailor shops in Lakewood which had previously When Tailors in the quantity of an item in that have been replacing supplied the tailor shops a package where the price or adding shoulder pads with pure cotton shoulder Remove Shatnez? remained constant. For have always used shoulder pads, had begun supplying R’ Moshe Miller example, a bag of potato pads filled with pure cotton reprocessed shoulder pads (Chicago Shatnez Laboratory) chips is still the same price. fibers. Recently it was in order to maintain their However, fewer potato discovered that the prices. Several Brioni suits were chips are being placed shoulder pads used by brought into the Chicago within the bag. Similarly, these tailors were filled As soon as this discovery lab, supposedly having the price of shoulder pads with reprocessed fibers was made, the Jewish had the shatnez removed has not gone up, but they and threads, possibly tailoring supply company by the company that sold are now being creating a shatnez concern. was contacted and told to them. There were some manufactured more send only pure cotton remaining linen threads in cheaply, with reprocessed What was even more shoulder pads.