The first census record of clothing manu factured for men and boys was for 1849, the first record of clothing for women and children was for 1859. Garments made by dressmakers constituted the women's clothing shown by the records for 1859 and 1869. Factory production of cloaks began about 1870 and of women's suits, dresses, waists and skirts about 18FA. After 1890, the manufacture of these garments increased at a wonderfully rapid rate. In 1914, the value of the factory product of clothing for women and children surpassed that of clothing for men and boys. In both branches of the in dustry the factory, shop and worldng condi tions have been about the same and similar ma chinery has been used. In the manufacture of clothing for women and children there is less subdivision of labor and more hand-work than so often if the collars were detached. She be gan to make separate collars for him about 1825 and to make them for sale a little later. Ebenezer Brown, a small dry-goods dealer in Troy, began, about 1829, to sell separate col lars made by members of his faznily. They were called *string collars,z' because they were tied around the neck with tapes attached to the ends. By 1840 five other collar-malcing shops were started in Troy. To this dav the collar business is largely centred there. the business is probably more localized than any other of the same magnitude in the United States.
The first shirt factory of which there is a in the manufacture of clothing for men. Most of the factory-made clothing manufactured in the United States is produced in New York city, and nearly three-fourths in the State of New York. Corsets are manufactured princi pally in Connecticut and New York city. While models for styles of women's outer apparel have been mostly imported from Paris, many new designs have, in recent years, originated in America. All muslin underwear manufactured in the United States is of domestic designs.
The wife of a blacksmith in Troy, N. Y., is credited with having invented separate collars for shirts. It occurred to her that she would not need to wash and iron her husband's shirts record was owned by David and Isaac N. Jor dan, merchants in New York city. They fre quently received from the South orders for shirts which they employed • seamstresses to make. In 1832 they started a factory for mak ing stock shirts. In 1840 another firni in New York city began manufacturing shirts, and in 1845 a shirt factory was opened in Troy. At the present time the production of shuns in Troy about equals that in Philadelphia or Bal timore, and the production in these three cities about equals that in New York city.