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Clothes take different time to decompose depending on the material they are made from. Natural materials take relatively less time to decompose compared to altered materials or synthetic fibers, with cotton taking around 6 months, wool taking 1 year, and silk taking around 4 years. **Synthetic fibers take a lot longer since they are predominantly made from plastics. Nylon fabric takes 30 to 4o years, whereas lycra and polyester will take predictably more than 500 years to decompose.**
According to [Daniel Wescott](https://www.txst.edu/anthropology/people/faculty-staff/wescott.html), director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University, "on average,a body buried within a typical coffin usually starts to break down within a year, but takes up to a decade to fully decompose, leaving only the skeleton". If buried without a coffin, a body "typically skeletonizes within five years", says [Nicholas Passalacqua](https://www.wcu.edu/faculty/nvpassalacqua.aspx), an associate professor at the Forensic Osteology Research Station at Western Carolina University.
According to [Daniel Wescott](https://www.txst.edu/anthropology/people/faculty-staff/wescott.html), director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University, "on average,**a body buried within a typical coffin usually starts to break down within a year, but takes up to a decade to fully decompose, leaving only the skeleton". If buried without a coffin, a body "typically skeletonizes within five years**", says [Nicholas Passalacqua](https://www.wcu.edu/faculty/nvpassalacqua.aspx), an associate professor at the Forensic Osteology Research Station at Western Carolina University.
In my opinion, **the clothing needn't stay longer under the ground than the body**.
