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- 4. inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends.
- 7. a machine with a mechanically driven needle for sewing or stitching cloth.
- 8. a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses
- 10. a fashion designer- the father of haute couture
- 12. A pattern cut out of paper; specifically a dressmaking pattern printed on paper
- 13. an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.
- 14. a machine used to spin cotton and other fibers in mills
- 17. an object that is regarded as the usual or most common size or form of its kind
- 18. Machine that represented an important step toward automatic weaving
- 19. took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period of transition to new manufacturing processes
- 20. an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer
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- 1. a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber
- 2. a famous french fashion designer popularized the little black dress
- 3. allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity).
- 5. the inventor of the quintessential American garment, the blue jean
- 6. made for the general market and sold through stores rather than made to order for an individual customer; off the rack.
- 9. a machine for spinning with more than one spindle at a time
- 11. a type of cloth or woven fabric.
- 15. the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton
- 16. the craft or action of forming fabric by interlacing threads.
