(i) Before the 17th century, most ordinary women in Britain possessed very few clothes made of flax, linen or wool, which were difficult to clean.
(ii) After 1600, trade with India brought cheap, beautiful and easy – to – maintain Indian chintzes (cotton cloth printed with designs and flowers).
(iii) During the Industrial Revolution, in the l9th century, Britain began the mass manufacture of cotton textiles which it exported to many parts of’ the World.
(iv) Cotton clothes, now became more accessible to a wider section of people in Europe.