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DE SO 7Throughout history people have worn clothing of one description or another. Apart from protection against the weather, clothes were also often used to show the wearer's status and wealth. Over the years, numerous fashions in clothing have come and gone (1) ____________ some of these have been popular for relatively short periods, others have lasted longer.Until the first half of the 20th century, the ability to follow fashion was limited to those (2) ____________ had the money to (3) ____________ so. But following fashion did not only demand money, it also required large amounts of leisure time. Wealthy people took fashion very seriously and close attention had to (4) ____________ paid to detail. Wearing the correct clothes for different occasions was very important, despite the (5) ____________ that this often meant changing clothes five or six (6) ____________ day.More recently, fashionable clothes have come within the reach of ordinary people. The traditional craft of dressmaking, (7) ____________ usually involved sewing (8) ____________ hand, was both costly and slow. But today, large-scale manufacturing has made it easier for people to keep (9) ____________ with changes in fashion (10) ____________ having to spend a great deal of money

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