The answer is: cloth for sheets and other supplies. Reasoning: because of where it says “In particular, the textile mills made most of the fabric used by the armed service, from sheets and blankets to parachutes and tire cords.”
We distinguish between "sex" and "gender".
Your sex is what you're born as, the physical body, you're either a man or a woman.
Your gender is something that you construct. That means, you may feel like either a man or a woman.
In some cases your physical sex and your constructed gender don't match, and you have people who feel as if they had been born in the wrong body.
In this scene from <u>Hamlet Act V</u>, the skulls are a symbolism; they represent the death (end of life on earth). They contribute to Hamlet’s understanding of death because, as he sees the <u>anonymous skulls</u>, he begins to realize that nothing accomplished in life matters in the face of death, as we are all equal in death.
