How Did Men's Clothing Play In The Industrial Revolution?

The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly farming and rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machines. However, Industrialization enabled the creation of powered and efficient machinery, the rise of factories and mass production. The iron and textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine, played essential roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. While industrialization

Men’s clothing, while looking simple outwards, began to acquire internal padding and complex structures that made what we now call the modern man’s suits. Men’s fashion became a series of “undecorated black tubes”, imitating the smoke stacks of the Industrial Revolution. Thanks to the creation of highly efficient sewing machines, industrialists saw sky rocketing profits thanks to the massive amount of outputs compared to previous times. With profits so high, soon competition between manufacturers of clothes got intense. This caused manufacturers to improve their products by adding extreme amounts of sewing decorations, such as ruffles, pleats, and top stitching so as to attract costumers. This led to overly decorated women’s dresses in the 19th century during the capitalistic revolution. Another result of this increased output in clothing manufacture was that poor people's clothing got better, and the rags of earlier eras were replaced by cheaply made mass manufactured work clothes. The middle classes were able to afford more than clean simple clothes, and began to actively indulge in fashion for its own

And surprisingly, the hemline dropped in 1923 and 24. In 1925 it, famously, rose all the way to the knee. Daytime dresses of the 1920s were shapeless affairs, they didn't hug a woman's curves, instead they hung loosely, often even the sleeves were worn loose as well. Floral prints were the rage in women’s 1920s clothing, soft pastel colors in "Nile Green" "Sunset Orange" "French Blue" and "Maze" were the most popular colors of 1920s fashion for women. The Cloche Hat was another creation of Women’s fashion during this period. It's said that it was the invention of French milliner Caroline Reboux who introduced it in or around 1923 on the streets of Paris. From there the cloche hat spread like wildfire. Made of velvet, satin, horsehair, straw or felt, the cloche (means "bell" in French) hid a woman hair and allowed her to tuck it up into the hat. The boyish look was as well another hit among women during this time. It's said that the flapper look started when Coco Chanel put on a man's sweater one morning and wrapped a belt around the waist. Chanel's seemingly unimportant act, turned into an entire fashion madness, which defined 1920s fashion. Society was ready for a major change. Women not only began driving, smoking drinking, and having sex just like men, but they also appropriated his clothes. But it's not that women stopped being sexy during this period. Through the reinvention