Influences
A system in which private individuals & businesses respond freely to the needs of the marketplace.
What is market economy?
Groups of people with board, common interests who live and work together.
What are societies?
Cotton, flax, wool, & silk are examples.
What are natural fibers?
Home of the 1st silk production.
What is China?
Being paid for each item produced.
What is piecework?
A system in which the state, or some other central authority, controls economic activities is called.
What is command economy?
An elaborate headdress/ornate jewelry to display a special status is an example of what type of fashion influence.
What is social?
Fibers made completely from chemicals.
What are synthetics?
lst usable 2-thread sewing machine inventor.
What is Elias Howe?
Classification of nylon.
What is a synthetic fiber?
Way a society chooses to produce, distribute & consume its goods & services.
What is economics?
Period of time when clothing was very casual, emphasizing comfort & practically.
What is 1970s?
During WWII, fabric use was restricted.
What is military use?
Manner of accomplishing a task using current technical methods of knowledge.
What is technology?
Decade known for the grunge look.
What is 1990s?
Traditions that one generation hands down to the next are called.
What is customs?
After WWI, women that wore tight cloche hats & knee-length dresses were called . . .
What are flappers?
Rayon, acetate, & triacetate are examples.
What are manufactured fibers?
The 1st commercial patterns graded for different sizes were made by.
What is Butterick?
Clothing made in factories in standard sizes.
What is ready to wear?
Trading one person's skills or goods for another person's skills or goods.
What is bartering?
During the Middle Ages, laws that regulated what each class of people could wear.
What are sumptuary laws?
Continent that produces the world's supply of synthetic fibers.
What is Asia?
In the USA in 1789, Samuel Slater is known for building the 1st successful what.
What is a textile mill?
1st commercially produced, manufactured fiber in the USA.
What is rayon?