The First Clothes

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The First Clothes
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What were the early clothes of these
civilizations
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Egypt
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Minoan
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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

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Roman Empire
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Japan
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Influences on Fashion
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How did trade influence fashion?

• exchanged ideas fabrics
• trade routes opened
• barter trading without money goods fabrics

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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

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Religion
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Technology

• Uses scientific knowledge to develop something
  new

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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

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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 1890s easy to
  manufacture
• Led to growth in stores 1850s first department
  store

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Cellulose

• Main components of plants cotton, flax
  forcing through fine holes (silkworm) produced
  long threadlike fibers
• 1910 introduced in US
• 1924 Rayon 1st Synthetic fiber ( artificial
  silk)

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Cotton Gin
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Spinning Mule produces as much yarn as 200 hand
spinners
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• 1845 Elias Howe 1889 singer added motor
  (during Industrial Revolution) home sewing

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Paper Pattern

• Ebenezer Butterick used to make shirts 1865
  sold by mail
• 1870 James McCall drafted patterns
  manufactured