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Fashion is the reflection of social, political and cultural changes around the world.
Humans evolve and so fashion does.
Wearing clothes is a fact since many years ago,
but fashion started in the Renaissance with the origin of sewing.
Here you have the main deeds since the Neolitics to the nowadays.
Content table:
- Neolitic
- Middle Age
- Rennaisence
- French Revolution
- The 19 th Century
- The corsett
- A glamorous style
- Pants in women "Bussines time"
- The retourn to glamour
- The ready to wear
- Miniskirt, new ideas and explosion of colors
- The psicodelic look
- Rebelion epoch inspired by disco
- The grounge style:messy everywhere
- Celebrities and bad fashion
- Fast fashion
- The current situation
| Year/epoch | Deed |
|---|---|
| Neolitic | The man knows how to knit and clothe was used to protect from the cold. However, the clothes were very simple. In Egipt the clothes became more elaborate and it appeared the "calasiris", a luxurious long tunic. All woman used it, each of them had different colors according their social status. On the other hand in the Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece and Rome, used a variable of the tunic. |
| Middle Age | The German society introduced sweing, a shorter tunic and pants. The most used material was wool. Also lino was used for hoses, shirts and underwear. On the one hand man weared two tunics and a coat. On the other hand, woman also weared two tunics but with wide sleeves and a coat or a veil over the head. In the medieval it was introduced and gloves and velvet. It increased the use of silk and cotton |
| Rennaisence | The professionals of sweing created luxurious suits with brigth colors and shapes, and gave great importance to sleeves, folds and fabric fall. For the man it was used tight shorts, shirts, a type of over shirt and other accesories. For the woman it was used a corsett that shaped the waist and raised the upper body and a metalic ring in order to give a rounded shape to the dress. A great religious influence made that the cloth became the most common material and the silk became a materia only used from the high classes. Then short enlarged and the jacket and tie were introduced. |
| French Revolution | The way of wearing clothes uniformed and men started to use long pants and short coats and woman started wearing rounded skirts and shoulder coat. The corsett was abandonded and it was used long dresses inspired in ancient Greece. |
| The 19 century | The coats started to look like the jacket we currently know. Pants were wider in the crotch area and narrow going through the ankles. The femenine fashion lowered the size of the waist and used wide sleeves, shoulder pads and wide flight skirts. It appear the icon of clothes designer and tailor that create trends, and the models to show clothes. In addition, the sewing machine was create and the stiches. |
| 1910 | The 20 th century start with a lot changes in fashion, especially for woman. The Industrial Revolution and the first world war caused impacts in fashion. The most use garment was corset and the siluet was very showed. |
| 1920 | After the war, fashion show fun and liberty. It predomine loose dresses, short heels, hats, and fringe. Corset were not use anymore and the hem goes above the anckle. |
| 1930 | The second world war change completly the direction of fashion. As men were going to fight, woman took charge not only in thier houses, but also in buissness, this led them into using pants. The austerity and dark colors defined this period |
| 1940 | At the end of the war, woman wanted to return to glamour. Bright color and excess of fabrics came back. The hem went below the knee. |
| 1950 | American consumism and the "ready to wear" started. Pastel color, long skirts and leather jackets were used. Femeninity was an important symbol. |
| 1960 | Feminist movement and the "flower power" had a great impact in fashion, because from there the miniskirt and explosion of colors were born. Flared pants and cotton fabric predomine and clothes were creative and original. |
| 1970 | It was the disco epoch, it was used sintetic fabrics like lycra and shoes incorporated heels. It was created de psicodelic look and the use of prints. |
| 1980 | It was the rebelion epoch inspired by disco. Houlderpads, leather, sequils stand out. Moreover, jeans become an icon and not only workers used them but also the other people |
| 1990 | It the epoch of the super models and the grounge style. The t-shirts and convers predomine and the look was messy and carelees. |
| 2000 | The pop culture and celebrities influence in the fashion. Low waist skirst, pants, jeans and sequils were mostly used. It was the worst epoch of fashion. |
| 2010 | Fast fashion predomined as there are six mini collections instead two a year. The massive production goes to onother level and increase. |
| 2020 | There are no so many changes. As at this point all clothes are already created so its search for new materials or new creative ways. In addition, vintage styles are coming back, for example flared pants and t-shirts with converse. |
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"CLOTHES MEAN
NOTHING UNTIL
SOMEONE LIVES
IN THEM"
-Marc Jacobs