Collection: What contribution did sewing machine make for women's liberation?

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This illustration comes from "Victorian Style and History" published in 1884. The picture depicts a scene of a man who works with a woman sitting in front of a sewing machine.

In 1790, the British inventor Thomas Saint invented the first sewing machine.Since then, the sewing machine has continuously improved, helping the housewives to greatly save the time and energy of sewing supplementation, so that they have the opportunity to go out of their families, enter the school and workplace, and plan their lives.

The emergence of sewing machines also reduces the cost of making clothing, breaking the shackles of women's clothing, so that they can use cheaper prices, more easily modify the size of the clothing, and create more individual clothing.It can be said that the developed fashion industry today is developed from this small sewing machine.

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