Ready-made clothes

For film of Robert Altman to see Ready-made clothes (film, 1994)

In opposition to the Haute couture, the ready-made clothes consists of parts sold as an end product and not realized overmeasure. It indicates the passage of the artisanal Couture and the Vêtement to measure with the Standardization of the sizes which allows the series production.

Today the majority of the creators and large houses make nothing any more but ready-made clothes, the haute couture not being nothing any more but one window of the know-how of the house.

History

At the time of the First World War, the American army must equip its soldiers as soon as possible, the sizes are thus standardized in order to save time of manufacture and thus to lower the costs by them. This technique is called then the clothes industry , the term will widen and indicates from now on the whole of industries of clothing.

Until the Second world war, the clothes industry represents only one quarter of the production of clothing, the remainder is made at the house or is ordered at the Couturière.

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