Women fashioning in America:

Most American dressmaker copied or adapted french styles,but issue at the end at hand is not simply one of center versus periphery.The structure of the American fashion industry and the culture of fashion in America milted against the recognition of individual fashion designers.America's Puritan heritage and nation's ideology of egalitarianism resulted in a pervasive culture suspicion of fashion.At the same time ,many American women were attached by precisely these chracterstics.As a result,both custom dressmaker and manufacturs of ready to wear clothes frequently imported french dresses and/or sewed false paris label into amrecan made dresses.
The first american women to achieve national reputation for fashion inovation was Ellen curtis demorest known professionally as Madame demorest,she was "as important to american nineteenth century fashion as worth would be the development of paris couture.Morethan any else .she foresaw the struture of american fashion as the comination of innvention,prodution,education,marketting and distribution.

Women fashioning in America:

The early history of women fashion design in united state is poorly documented, because for many year for most american "designers"were dressmakers who left little trace in the historical record.In the late nine-teenth century,the vast majority of dressmaker was women,but the setreo-type of male fashion :dictator" was already in existance,patterned after the first internationalllay famous male couturier,Charles Fredrick worth.
An English man whi in 1857 establish  a couuture house in paris,the world capital of women's fashion since the seven centary,worth bacme famous in part because of his gender.The " man milliner" was curiosity.However wort6h also significance change ed the structure of couture,moving it away from it's origins as small scale crraft towards it's future as big bussiness and high art.