Many people may not consider clothing as an issue, because they can't feel the various difficulties that this problem can bring.

Whether in the original world or in this current world, people don't feel any restrictions or impacts on wearing clothes.

This world began its industrial revolution with the textile industry, which greatly boosted the production of fabrics in the market, allowing even the poorest farmers and workers to have one or two relatively decent outfits.

Even if a family is very poor, they wouldn't be without clothes to wear; at most, they have few clothes that need patching.

In the original world, it's even simpler. With the advent of synthetic fibers, clothes? They could be piled up in wardrobes until they can't fit any more.

Although places like impoverished African nations have backward industries, leading to poorly developed clothing industries, any country with basic industries will never have a shortage of fabric for clothing, as long as they have one synthetic fiber plant.

For economically and industrially advanced countries, even ready-to-wear clothes are sold in the market instead of fabric, due to thin profit margins and low efficiency of handmade clothes.

It gradually evolves into high-end customizations, rather than the everyday clothing needs of the past.

However, if you turn back the time a bit, many people will find that, in the past, most had limited choices for their clothing.

Even feudal-era emperors had no more than "eight outfits for different seasons," although this signifies thrift, for modern citizens of the original world, having only eight such outfits a year? They were either poor or lazy.

Because, even for an ordinary person tight on money, spring, summer, autumn, and winter require different clothes; summer clothes couldn't be worn in winter.

Moreover, no matter how poor, they would have two sets of clothes to alternate for washing and changing.

Adding a set for spring and autumn, you could at least cobble together six sets of clothes, which would be very few for ordinary people.

Yet in that dark era, a family might only have one pair of pants; farmers had to work in the fields naked in the dark; women and children at home had no clothes and could only hide in bed.

This kind of situation is unimaginable for modern people of the original world, yet this was only a few decades before Perfikot crossed.

Even in Perfikot's childhood, new clothes were had only during the New Year, while remote impoverished areas still had no clothes.

For the Northern Territory now, it isn't the status quo, but it's not far off.

Because currently in the Northern Territory, due to the construction of shelters and Perfikot's initial arrangements to link domestic industrial systems, the major industrial sectors focus on heavy industries, such as steel and mechanical processing.

Other sectors also pair with these two industries; as for the textile industry, it's not that Perfikot neglected people's livelihood, but the Northern Territory couldn't provide materials needed for textile manufacturing.

In this era without synthetic fibers, textiles primarily rely on natural biological and plant materials. Biological materials include animal hair, such as wool and velvet.

Plant materials involve fibers extracted from plants like cotton and hemp.

Of course, in the East, animal protein could be added to materials, given that silk was genuinely baffling to ancient Europeans.

In today's world, humans have started making textiles with spider silk, not to mention various synthetic fibers.

To summarize, the Northern Territory lacks large-scale cotton and hemp planting and wide-ranging agriculture, resulting in relatively low investment and construction for the textile industry.

Although some textile factories import cotton yarn and wool from New Continent colonies for textile production, selling fabrics to the people of Northern Territory, the overall scale is still small.

The indigenous people of Northern Territory maintain traditional agriculture, raising some livestock for furs, and planting cotton and hemp on small scales to meet their needs with a bit of surplus being sold as local specialties.

Perfikot's original plan didn't actively develop traditional agriculture to provide raw materials for the textile industry.

The reason is simple, with the impending apocalypse, traditional agriculture is inevitably destined to disappear.

In Perfikot's plans, future agriculture would adopt a greenhouse model, while husbandry might have a small scale of farms to maintain meat, egg, and milk supplies.

However, these wouldn't satisfy the needs for large-scale industrial production.

It's about every settlement and shelter setting up a greenhouse and farm to achieve a level of self-sufficiency.

For these reasons, Perfikot did not prioritize traditional textile industries.

Conversely, acquiring synthetic fibers via petrochemicals to use as textile materials is much simpler, at least even in extremely cold environments, stable raw material supply for factories is assured.

Unlike traditional agriculture, which greatly relies on weather and natural conditions.

Perfikot hadn't precisely estimated Northern Territory's petroleum reserves, but with current Northern Territory's extraction rate and level, it's unlikely to be depleted within a hundred years.

Especially since Perfikot has only found one well so far, the total amount of oil in Northern Territory is still unknown.

Thus, the development of the petroleum industry would be greatly beneficial for Northern Territory and is a trend for the future.

However, even though Perfikot arranged synthetic fiber research before leaving Langton, and continued after arriving in the Northern Territory, even guiding studies once oil extraction began, the research team hadn't produced results to satisfy her.

This left Perfikot somewhat strained, but given the situation that chemical science in this era barely achieved theoretical frameworks after breaking away from alchemy, this wasn't entirely unexpected.

The reason Perfikot felt strained was that, even after adopting alchemy, they couldn't produce synthetic fibers.

Yes, researchers use alchemy to separate and process crude oil, then try to produce synthetic fibers from acquired products.

The approach was correct, but tangible results were not achieved.

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