Women’s ready-made and made-to-measure fashion – basic differences and similarities in design, production and trade in the 2nd half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century Cover Image

Damska konfekcja a odzież miarowa – podstawowe różnice i podobieństwa w projektowaniu, wytwarzaniu oraz handlu w drugiej połowie XIX wieku i na początku XX wieku
Women’s ready-made and made-to-measure fashion – basic differences and similarities in design, production and trade in the 2nd half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century

Author(s): Przemysław Krystian Faryś
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: history of textiles; history of ready to wear clothes; 19th century clothing; history of fast fashion; history of the textile industry

Summary/Abstract: The article presents and briefly discusses the basic differences and similarities in the design, making and trade of ready-made and made-to-measure fashion in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The growing textile industry allowed to develop a new type of ready-to-wear clothing. Mass production in the second half of the 19th century becomes a fact, and ready-made clothes enter the European and American market. Made-to-measure and ready-to-wear – those two different types of clothing products had many differences, but also similarities.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 25-45
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish