Cotton is a fiber (from the cotton plant). Flannel is a finish or weave. Hence you can have flannel wool as well as cotton flannel - i.e wool made with flannel finish or cotton made with flannel finish. Hope this helops.
A very memorable song from Joni Mitchell that featured the line They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.. This best described places I remember growing up in Bloomington, MN in my teens where numerous places were torn down, most notably a restaurant I frequented that was replaced with a Park and Ride lot.
In an interview with NME in 1985, Henley explained the 'Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac' lyrics as an example of his generation selling out: I was driving down the San Diego freeway and got passed by a $21,000 Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the Right-wing upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie â all the guys with the blue blazers with the crests and the grey pants â and there was this Grateful Dead 'Deadhead' bumper sticker on it!