First sewing machine was invented in the Victorian era, after the development of machine elite class use to have a seamstress who stitched the clothes[clothes?:clothes paper cutter machine] for them on sewing machine. Before sewing machines everything was done by hand. The seamstresses went to the home of the woman who wanted to stitch the clothes. As industrial revolution started in the 19th century, garment[garment?:garment paper cutter machine] industry too began to evolve but it was in its infancy and had no developed system for garment manufacturing. Seamstresses observed that they can develop standard patterns which can fit more than one woman. They developed a mathematical sizing system to accommodate most women with very few patterns. As businessmen, interested in lowering costs, they continued developing these patterns to become paper[paper?:paper sample maker cutting machine] “information systems” engineered to control quantities of exact reproductions in cutting and stitching clothing[clothing?:clothing paper cutter machine] in mass production systems.
The garment industry grew from these tailors/businessmen, as they built manufacturing factories for production, which pattern engineering accommodated. Pattern engineering grew a great industry in the early and mid-20th century. Pattern making[Pattern making?:pattern making] was first taught to “apprentices” who were called “designers”. Creative designers of styles didn’t exist in the early 20th century. Paris was center of the developments in style and creation in garments at that time and many other countries copied from there. Later designers created booklets for teaching the pattern making systems mathematically – that came to be called “pattern drafting”. One dis-advantage of mass production was that designers put little effort in bringing new designs and patterns but they either copied or else made very little changes. Even today the readymade garment industry does not bring too many new ideas in the products rather it is creating mass garments to reduce cost. Garment industry has developed many new and time saving techniques, processes and machinery for the effective production today. The most important is the CAD/CAM which enables the designer, pattern maker[pattern maker?:pattern maker], marker and grader to do their jobs precisely and effectively.
