who used the cotton gin mostly
It was a lot like the old churka, but it had steel teeth that caught the cotton fibers, and a system of pulleys to pull harder. Cotton farmers all used the new cotton gin, and between that and the spinning and weaving machines, cotton clothing got so cheap that many people began to wear cotton instead of linen. Clothes got a lot cheaper, so that for the first time in history most people had more than one outfit to wear.