Clothing During The Renaissance

From the time of the Ottoman Empire through the twenty-first century, people have worn clothes. Although styles have come and went, clothing still defines your status, personality, and origin. Clothing still has, essentially, the same concept to it—to cover what is not to be seen. Clothing has grown throughout the ages in styles and developments, such as the fit and the process in purchasing clothes for both men and women.
The style of clothing for men during the Renaissance was more extravagant than it is today. Men during the Renaissance would wear tunics, hosen, and jerkins. As it still does today, clothing was “a sign of the wearer’s wealth” according to paragraph five of Tailoring by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Throughout the American Civil War, the clothing style of men was drastically different from the Renaissance fashion. All the while, they would wear the more common suit, shirt, and denim. The fashion of men’s clothing has developed from the handsome tunics of the Renaissance and Medieval eras to the professional suits of the ninetieth and twentieth centuries.
In the middle Ages, clothing just began becoming fitted with belts and ties. During the Renaissance fitted clothes were worn almost all of the time. It was a whole task in itself to get dressed every morning, especially for women. Women wore layers upon layers of skirts to appear to have a larger waist compared to their fitted bodice. But in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries, “women wore trimmer dresses with buttons that allowed for more fitted looks…clothing became a natural extension of the body rather than its decoration or disguise” according to paragraph six of Tailoring from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Women overtime have shown the more natural them without hiding behind wigs or large dresses. They just displayed