Meaning And Reasoning For Fashion Since The Sixteenth-Century

Fashion’s Revolution Although fashion has progressed since the sixteenth-century, the meaning and reasoning for fashion has remained the same. The main reasons for needing fashion are for protection, individuality, identification, and representation. By the sixteenth-century, the recently developed printing press was turning out books that were used to give other places around the world the experience of this “fashion.” Styles worn in Italy in the early sixteenth-century showed similarities to Northern Europe in the thirteenth-century. Bodices were attached to gathered skirts. Many gowns and men’s doublets or jackets were made of figured velvets. The decorative idea became a future of men’s styles all over Europe in the early years of the 1500’s when Spain, France, and Austria came to dominate the Italian city-states. By the sixteenth century, international events helped to move Spanish styles to the center of the fashion stage for this time period. Dark, rich textiles were made into women’s garments with fairly rigid, hour-glass silhouettes. A stiff, hooplike structure held
For example Lacoste, Yves Saint-Laurent, Armani, Gucci, or Chanel is ways of demonstrating one's apparent wealth. Opaque tights in many colors were very popular through mid-1990s. A common outfit was to wear a skirt or baby doll dress or short dress with black opaque tights, white slouch socks and white sneakers. Opaque pantyhose were also popular worn under dress shorts. Shortalls, a version of overalls in which the legs of the garment resemble those of shorts, were popular. In the early 1990s flannel became popular and lasted through most of the decade. Unlike the fitted Western shirts of the 70s which fastened with pearl snaps, the flannel shirts of the 1990s were padded and loose-fitting for optimum