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= __Julie Kemp: New Consumer Products__ = = = //**Before the technology advances in the 1800s:**//

· The old way of production including the putting out system and manual labor fueled the economy. · These ways of creating goods for the small businesses in Europe made everyday items very expensive, unless you were a upper class or royal family member. · The goods that were produced were made in small quaintly and took a long time to produce.


 * //Effect the industrial revolution has on consumer products://**

· The industrial revolution in Europe changed the way consumer goods would be made for century's to come. Factories which could accommodate many workers replaced small workshops. Furthermore innovations could use steam power to create powered machinery. This machinery not only cut down time to manufacture goods in high quaintly but also made items of necessity plus some luxury goods available for many more families of lesser status. · The Spinning Mule, a machine to replace old ways of cotton making, which was newly introduced allowed for an efficient way to produce clothes (this machine contributed to much of the new demand for high end clothes and decorations in the house)[|Textile industry video:]


 * //The target audience of consumer goods//:**

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· The new industry of consumer goods was quickly targeted to the homemaker type women who had money. These women could show their sophistication and style by decorating their place of work( the home) with high end products and materials for clothing bought at the store. · My primary source shows a women, who has money considering the animal around her neck and the high-end type of clothing that she has on, shopping for the children in the family. This is a poster which like others are now made from new technology in the printing industry. The advertisers obviously picked this lady to show that every women who has money needs to shop at their store. Many advertisements were now made by the new found demand and accessibility for consumer goods.


 * //The consumer goods bring the//** // **Victorian home:** //

• By the late 1800s Europe thrived economically from technological advances which allowed machinery to produce for the demand of consumer goods. Domesticity had a new importance to a family’s life. The home became a symbol for status and a focus of existence for the women of the house. The house would be characterized not so much from the outside structure but by the decor of the inside. Formed by the goods in the home, soon a certain style of the high-end homemaker would be introduced. • The new style was Victorian which would be used throughout the European homes. Each house would have a certain layout with traditional rooms like the bedrooms, living rooms, and bathrooms but also a new type of spaces would be considered a necessity including a Card room, drawing room, sick room, etc. The women of the upper middle class would be in charge of what materials/ furniture would be put into these homes and that would be heavily influenced by magazines, ads, and commercials of the late 1800’s. Most rooms would be designed in the typical colors of red and green which its materials could be found at the local store.

//**Consumers are now fashion suave:**//

• With the advances in the textile industry brought about a new need for the women to be fashion suave. Like the goods which were used in her house, the magazines, ads, and commercials would also sway the person to get certain types of clothing to reflect their high-end style. This would also bring a new quantity of what was in ones closet. An example of a list which would be taken to the store to buy some missing of necessities of this time: • 12 pairs of white cotton hose, 6 hem stitched • 4 white hair-cord dressing jackets • 1 pair of French wove corsets • 1 patent crinoline (Fabric used for linings or petticoats)


 * //Some products/publications://**

• Things like hand held clocks, children toys, playing cards, gas lamps, gold framed pictures, fur rugs, chairs, fireplaces, soaps, kitchen appliances(as seen in picture being passed around), etc. all played a crucial role, in not only woman's lives, but in all of the European people’s lives during this time because of its enormous impact on the economy. • Even publications would be made to further ones knowledge on how the homemaker should live: from how she should furnish the home to how she should accessorize her hair. These materialistic items, which were newly idealized and were made to shape each and every aspect of life, can all be contributed from the inventions of the machines in the 1800’s during the industrial revolution. //**Bibliography:**// = = ==Snow, Emily. "YouTube - Historic textile industry." //YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.// 5 Sept. 08. Web. 27 Sept. 2009. ==


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