"It used to be that India was cheap cottons and poor finish work," Ms. Lundquist said.

The Buddha ordained that his followers should be simply dressed, and to this day the Robe is of the cheapest cotton.

He wore no stockings but a kind of undergarment of cheap cotton which he slipped off himself.

They were of cotton so cheap and thin that it was practically invisible in a good light and tended to dissolve in the wash.

He figured that the British companies were importing cheap raw cotton from India and sending back finished cloth at higher prices.

They were black, and made of cheap cotton.

Her dress, damp in patches from the raw night, was made of cheap, dark cotton, much mended and several years out of fashion.

We were, in effect, paying the rest of the world to buy American product rather than the cheaper cotton grown in Africa and South America.

He showed separates cut from cheap cottons because he couldn't afford luxury fabrics.