text:  And so he said, I asked him if he was going to be selling these skirts since he's based here in Hawaii. And he said, no, it was kind of more of a curiosity for him on the quality of the skirt. And, you know, the prices really caught him. And so I spoke with Micronesian poet Emily Cherkiling. She did her Ph.D. thesis on the Uros. And she said this issue first arose in the early 2000s when the Philippines mass produced the skirts.