Industrial Revolution
What is one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving?
Flying Shuttle
Who changed the face of home sewing forever by creating the first graded sewing pattern?
Ebenezer Butterick
A study of women's body measurements for the purpose of creating a sizing system which the entire industry could follow.
Standardized Sizes
A contemporary term used by fashion retailers to express that designs move from catwalk quickly in order to capture current fashion trends.
Fast Fashion
What is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibers in the mills?
Spinning Mule
A pattern in sewing and fashion design is the paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric before cutting out and assembling
Paper Pattern
The wartime economy, the change in population demographics, the expanding domestic economy, and the shift to women in the workforce all had a tremendous impact on fashion.
World War I (1914-1918)
An electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.
Internet
A multi-spindle spinning frame
Spinning Jenny
What fashion designer is widely considered the Father of Haute Couture?
Charles Worth
The government found it necessary to ration food, gas, and even clothing during that time.
World War II(1939-1945)
A machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber
Cotton Gin
What is the term for factory-made clothing, sold in finished condition, and in standardized sizes?
Ready-to-Wear
a French fashion designer whom is one of the most important couturiers of the twentieth century.
Christian Dior
Who was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer?
Elias Howe
Who is the inventor of the quintessential American garment, the blue jean?
Levi Strauss
A famous French Fashion designer.
Coco Chanel