Clothing Industry During The Industrial Revolution

Throughout the course of time, the rapid development of clothing has drastically changed the way that society lives. For example, several advancements have been made in the ready-made, tailoring, and modern clothing industries such as the change in style, with correlation to the the change in culture. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, families would typically make their own clothes, using their own fabrics and sewing methods; however, clothing production became more industrialized and “fit based,” when the world reached the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The clothing industry is beneficial to the people of the world, because of the new ideas and skills it forces people to create and develop. Firstly, the advancements made in the “ready-made” clothing industry have given society the change to develop in the way that clothes are made. In the past, ready-made clothing often fit poorly”(3). People had no other option except to wear the clothes that fit them the “best,” even though these clothes may be too big or small on them. The “predetermined sizes” (3) created a struggle to find the correct clothing, that fit
Along with the birth of the Renaissance, “more fitted clothes” (5) became the most popular way to wear clothes. Custom tailoring opened up a new category into the rapidly expanding apparel market, which “required more and more skill” (5) as the designs and complexity grew larger and more intricate. Also, the trade of actually being a tailor for people in your city was a job with very high profit. In reference to cost of getting clothes tailored, the wealthy had an advantage. A lower-class family would most likely struggle to find a tailor to make “truly affordable” (6) clothing for them. Because of this, poor families resulted to sewing and tailoring their own