Part 2--The Long Road to Fast Fashion: US Textile Boom and Bust in the 20th Century By the end of the Civil War, two other factors, one huge in scale and the other household-sized, were changing the United States and its textile industries. One was the railroad and the other was the consumer-marketed sewing machine. … Continue reading The Human and Climate Costs of Our Perpetually New Clothes- Part 2 (of 4)