Women's Clothes During The Industrial Revolution

Women’s clothes has dramatically changed through the World War II in ‘40s. Like the World War II is called as ‘total war,’ it became usual that even middle-class woman worked during the war period. This made women’s clothes more casual and easier to move, and this is the origin of American fashion. At this point, Claire McCardell played an important role who led this changes of clothes. She introduced simple and functional clothes which were based on the sports casual ware. She proposed the new design of female clothes which is more simple and casual one. For instance, separates that tops and bottoms were divide, kitchen dinner dress which is suit for both cooking and serving customers, loose babydoll dress which using denim or sweat suit fabric, …show more content…
Progress of industrialization in the household technology decrease the number of paid servant as household workers. This means that the amount of work housewives have to do were increased which did not existed at all. As the author of the book mentions that “mechanization of the household meant that time expended on some jobs decreased, but also that new jobs were substituted, and in some cases―notably laundering ― time expenditures for old jobs increased because of higher standards. The advantages of mechanization may be somewhat more dubious than they seem at first glance.” (pp.489, “The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and social Change in the Twentieth Century”) In addition to this, the meaning of doing housework is not just work but include the meaning of responsibilities of women at that time. Because they have to keep their house clean or take care of their children by themselves which used to be the work of servants as household workers, women had to take responsibilities for all of their