I've traditionally bought cotton blend shirts (which can eliminate the need for ironing, if I remove them from the dryer quickly). But now the fine stores that I visit only carry shirts that are 100% cotton.

What's the deal? Am I shopping in the wrong (or right) stores, or has there been a shift away from cotton blends?

If blends are endangered, is it because the high cost of oil has made polyester more costly, or just a shift in what is considered fashionable?

Wrinkle free shirts? They've got a little something' somethin' in them.

That doesn't answer the question, and neither would suggestions that I buy all-cotton shirts and take them to a dry cleaner, hire a maid, buy a slave, etc.

What I'm looking for are observations over whether stores are no longer carrying cotton-poly blends and are instead only carrying 100% cotton shirts.

when we last discussed this subject, i had a look at several online sites with dress shirts for men, and I did see more all cotton shirts. bezalel is correct.

maybe b/c they're treated with wrinke/stain resistence, maybe b/c they're more comfortable to wear ?

I think it's a plot, but I haven't figured out who is behind the conspiracy.

George Bush and the oil lobby would want more polyester, not less, right?

The forces on the side of the righteous -- since polyester is a crime against G0d and man.

Do you consider a cotton-poly blend to be shatnez?

No, I consider polyester treif.

And you obviously don't just hold by the d'oraisa opinion that a majority would render a blend kosher, but rather you follow d'rabbanan that it would have to be less than one part treif in sixty kosher in order for the treif to be batel.

No, I'm super machmir. Polyester can never be batel.

And you call yourself a Centrist!