How would you explain the major changes in the clothing pattern which occurred in Europe from seventeenth century to twentieth century?
1. Before the 17th century, most ordinary women in Britain possessed very few cloths made of flax, linen or wool which were difficult to wear and clean
2. After 1600, trade with India brought cheap, beautiful and easy to maintain Indian chintzes within the reach of many Europeans.
3. During the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, Britain began the mass manufacturing of cotton textiles which becomes more accessible to a wider section of the people.
4. By early twentieth century, artificial fibers made clothes further cheap and easy to wash.
5. In the late 1870s, heavy restrictive under-clothes were gradually discarded. Clothes got lighter and simpler
