Answer:
(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 19th 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.
(v) By the early 20th century, artificial fibres made
clothes cheaper and easier to wash and maintain.
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