As industrial technology put machine-made lace, steel cage crinolines, and silk dresses within the reach of an increasing number of female consumers, elegant simplicity became a hallmark of the elite.
There is something distinctive about a piece of homespun which appeals strongly to one's fancy, and invests it with an individuality quite different from machine-made cloth.
It seemed to me to be a machine-made answer, with very little if any relevance to the case we are now considering.
To-day, people buy machine-made products that are not produced by the skill of the worker.
By the look of it you would think it was machine-made.
Either machine-made or hand-made shoes were accepted, and there is no record as to the proportion of each.
The 600,000 machine-made sand-faced bricks used for the facing also acted as shuttering to the concrete backing.
They are advertising and pushing their machine-made chains.