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Fashion History

FASHION HISTORY
No fashion is new. Every style you see has evolved from previous styles. It has been seen and used before. The same geometric shapes are used: rectangles, squares and triangles. These shapes were used in primitive times and are still being used. Primitive people created fabrics, perhaps accidentally. Clothing tends to fit into a certain number of basic categories such as draped apparel, pull-on clothing, cut and sewn on semi-fitted clothing, close fitting and artificial such as hoops and padding.

SO WHAT IS FASHION?


If one uses the word in the strict sense of apparel, it implies covering the body with an article or some articles of clothing that have an acceptance in a recognized stratum of society. So what do the Australian Aborigines and the Beverly Hills sophisticates have in common?
THEY BOTH ADORN THEMSELVES
It is how the body is adorned that creates fashion. Furs for Eskimos, cotton gallabayas for the Egyptians, decoration for cave men and very little clothing for those living in the warm Mediterranean.

DOES WEATHER MATTER?
You bet it does!!

Fashion often interrelates with food. Food interconnects with body awareness, which in turn is mirrored in clothing. In a wider, symbiotic sense, our eating habits affect fashion in other ways--less wool for apparel if sheep are reduced and less hides for leather if we reduce our consumption of beef.

Fashion is a most powerful force. Fashion gives us not only an insight into the social structure of almost any society, but enables us to comprehend and understand the social and economic forces at work. Most societies develop counter-culture movements. For example, Amelia Bloomer, rebelling against tight waists and hoops, introduced a whole new concept of clothing in the middle of the 19th century.

Children have dressed in miniature versions of adult apparel. Children love it but parents encourage this. Fashion is truly a mirror and our acceptance of styles and changes in styles is a subconscious reaction to the society in which we live.

It is only by looking back in time, into the distant past, that we understand were we are today. What we wear on our bodies in the 20th century are bits and pieces of apparel from other eras. We owe so much to other ages, other times. The 21st century will be here before we know it.


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