Fashion and Beauty
Clothing, gloves to protect their bodies from the elements or to provide cover for the sake of modesty, came much later. The people of northern Europe, probably the first animal skins hanging around as protection against cold in about 25,000 BC. In the Mediterranean and the Middle East, the fibers of plants such as flax, and hair of goats and sheep, were woven to form lightweight fabrics that not only protects against the sun’s rays, but also the importance of social status. As civilizations developed, so dress styles has also evolved. In Egypt, Greece and Rome, the clothes were covered, while the population of northern Europe and the East had sewn tubular garments. Pants and robes, however, were considered typical of barbaric societies, tribal.
But the idea of fashion, with their ever-changing styles and trends cycles, first took hold in mid 1300 in Paris, London and Italian city-states, where the elite rejected flowing garments decorated in tight clothes to show the “new taste. menswear, which had previously been to the ankles, reaching above the knee, while women’s dress has been transformed by the laces, buttons, and the introduction of the cleft. As people wanted to change its ways, at regular intervals – a trend that has coincided with growth of international trade in textiles – so cutting and adapting.
The first belonged to the elite of fashion, trying to preserve their social superiority ‘sumptuary laws that prohibit merchants and small farmers to use costly and richly embroidered fabrics. However, the French code of dress, on the basis of a fixed social hierarchy and customs of the court, was overthrown by the revolution of 1789. powdered wigs and elaborate hair has been abandoned, men’s suits were no longer decorated with embroidery and lace, and women adopted the rule simple dress. The style has become a symbol of individual freedom, it has been. It is no longer the preserve of the aristocracy, which soon became associated with avant-garde, the Romantic writers and artists, political activists and dandy.
In Britain, affordable, mass-produced printed textiles and fashion accessories were provided by the industrial revolution. The black suit has become a man of “uniform”, while women paraded status of the family, through their clothes and their children. Fashion and femininity are inextricably intertwined. The women were charged with petticoats and their mobility limited by delicate shoes.