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The advent of the sewing machine was a true revolution. Attributed to Isaac Merritt Singer, it received a patent in the United States in 1851. It can be said for Singer that he was a very innovative man and a very eccentric man, that he was three times married with twenty-four children, and that he had a 
passion for the theater. In reality, Singer’s invention was merely to collect and rationalize previously developed ideas, the difference being that his concept was extraordinarily functional.
In those days, small “cottage industries” handled the production of men’s apparel; tailors sewed by hand, predominately in their own homes; women’s garments were stitched exclusively at home and often required numerous attempts. With the arrival of the sewing machine, the work was moved to small and medium-sized mills that operated under contract in often-arduous conditions. Soon thereafter, production had increased fivefold with the same number of tailors. A system of sizes was developed where before garments had been tailored to each customer. The cost of apparel dropped dramatically so as to become accessible to every social class. The women who had primarily been responsible for production assumed for the first time a role in the American economy.
