Explore the history of clothes including inventors and their inventions of common clothing items such as jeans, raincoats, even zippers! Find how making clothes has changed over time with interesting facts of an often-overlooked industry. The reader provides a language arts connection as students learn vocabulary related to all aspects of the clothing industry.

Improve your reading skills and build solid foundations in core content areas. Each topic takes you in a journey to find out more about the topic: provides a simple definition and points out to references and further reading opportunities. During the course of reading there are questions for you to answer and quizzes to help you establish connections across the content areas.