How did the Industrial Revolution change fashion?
During the industrial revolution, both men's and women's dress becomes
more complex during this era due to the invention of the Sewing Machine,
and the popular dissemination of pattern books and systems for garment
cutting. Men's clothing, while outwardly simple, begins to acquire the
internal padding, interfacings and complex structure that makes modern
men's suits fall so smoothly even over an object as lumpy and mobile as
the human form. Men's fashion becomes a series of undecorated black
tubes, like the smoke stacks of The Industrial Revolution, while women's
dress continues to balloon out with ruffles, decorations and
petticoats.
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