The First Clothes What were the early clothes
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The First Clothes
What were the early clothes of these civilizations:
Egypt:
Minoan
Greece Wrapping, draping & pinning rectangular pieces of fabric • Chiton – 2 fabric rectangles joined at the shoulders – held in place with pins – folded to fall in pleats • Himation – worn as a cloak • Woolen first – then silk and linen – red, purple, yellow and blue
Roman Empire
Japan
Influences on Fashion
How did trade influence fashion? • exchanged ideas & fabrics • trade routes opened • barter – trading without money – goods – fabrics
Politics & Power • Kings/Queens – Royalty set the styles • Fashion trends spread slowly • Louis XIV – France – fashion leader • Middle class emergence – royalty and wives lead fashion – Queen Victoria – full skirted dresses
Religion
Technology Uses scientific knowledge to develop something new
Industrial Revolution • Rapid changes that resulted from the invention of power-driven machines • Weave fabric & sew garments a hundred times faster than by hand • Buy clothes from catalogs & stores • Middle class businessmen wore darker colors & sturdier fabrics = working in new factories with dirty smoke
Factories • 1790 = New England in US – Textile Mills – dark, noisy, dirty, unpleasant & overcrowded • First women were hired to make garments at home from fabric created – then factories developed • Sweatshops – worked in garment factories – dark, airless, uncomfortable & unhealthy • Textile Mills in South – shipped to NE to garment factories • Ready to Wear – Clothing made in advance for sale • Men took off quickly – Factories created a new middle class • First women – capes and shawls – women fashions changed quickly – more intricate sewing • Shirtwaists factories – 1890’s – easy to manufacture • Led to growth in stores – 1850’s first department store
Cellulose • Main components of plants – cotton, flax – forcing through fine holes (silkworm) – produced long threadlike fibers • 1910 – introduced in US • 1924 – Rayon – 1 st Synthetic fiber ( artificial silk)
Cotton Gin:
Spinning Mule produces as much yarn as 200 hand spinners
• 1845 – Elias Howe – 1889 – singer added motor (during Industrial Revolution) home sewing
Paper Pattern • Ebenezer Butterick – used to make shirts – 1865 – sold by mail • 1870 James Mc. Call –drafted patterns – manufactured
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