Essay About Clothing Over Time

What was the fashion like in Victorian England and what was worn often in the era? The Victorian century had altered throughout the years, with V shaped necklines, to long dresses, to full dresses, and to flat dresses. The Victorian era can be categorized by the decades of fashion, crinolines, hoop skirts, cosets, and age and gender.

The transcendentalist idea that truth comes from studying nature, along with the belief that clothing is one of the four basic necessities are depicted in this passage.

Clothing back in the 1800 's differed greatly from what is worn today although not entirely. As with today, there are occasions where people need to put on formal dress. Such as the Informal Black Tie Tuxedo and the Formal White Tie Tuxedo. Similarly back in the late 18th century and the late 19th century men and women had their own standard for formal wear. One might say formal wear then is analogous to what is commonly worn today although the style and fashion of what was socially acceptable then may differ than what is socially acceptable today. Ergo formal wear for men in the late 1700 's and early 1800 's consisted of a heavy embroidered coat and a matching waistcoat or vest. Although not all waistcoats may match the wearer 's coat, as

In the early 1800s, the south—and most of the north, for that matter—used a subsistence economy, where crops and goods were made locally by families for themselves and their communities. Family farms were basically forced to use a subsistence economy, simply because the lack of fast transportation. If they attempted to ship their crops to other ports and towns where it was needed, the crops would rot well before they ever made it. In the south, cotton was made using slave labor, but the harvests weren’t as large as they could be. The process of harvesting was slow—as it was with many crops across the north and south—and the wield was decent.

Clothing has changed very much over the years. At the time of the Civil War, ready-made clothing was very limited. Clothes were made by a tailor, a family member, or an individual. Ready-made clothing had many relationships with the development of tailoring in that they were both made by hand and they were not convenient.

The Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages, lasted from 500-1500 C.E. Around that time, the Western Roman Empire fell, causing everything to go out of order in Western Europe. People during that time were basically Romans, and those living in the Eastern Roman Empire - the Byzantine Empire - were also Romans. Hence, the culture in the Medieval Ages was similar to the culture in the Byzantine Empire. Cultures, throughout the world, build on one another - just like how the Roman Empire influenced the Medieval Culture. The Medieval culture influenced American culture today. Art, music, along with clothing are all major cultural aspects from the Middle Ages.

The fashion during 1920-1929 was era of vast change. This era influenced by Jazz Age and the wedding dress of Queen Elizabeth, which simplistic-shapeless and straight dress. The women hemlines’ reaching the predominantly mid-twenties flapper style. The memorable flapper girl in this era known by boyish figure-style, short sleek hair, and above the knee straight shift dress. Twenties also known as the start of prohibition period, crime and corruption reached a peak. Al Capone stands out as one of the male public figure from organized crime activities, his extravagant double-breasted jacket in dark colour with pinstripe or herringbone patters combine with fedora hats, two-tone shoes and cufflinks, rings and watches

Clothing has been apart of the world for over 170,000 years. Clothing can simply be garments worn to cover bodies, or it can have much more meaning. In the Middle Ages, clothing and fashion was a very large part of the society. Clothing was a direct reflection of the Feudal System. The garments one wore, said a lot about their lives, and identified their place in the world. The social pyramid was one of the largest elements in the middle age society. Everyone had their place in the pyramid. Clothing was a very clear indication in which social class you were in. Your status was shown by the materials that your clothes were made out of, to the colors of your fabrics.

The two groups of nobles are the nobles of the sword and the nobles of the robe. The nobles of the robe were the middle class. They made money and were gaining power. The nobles of the sword were born in to the nobles. The nobles of the sword were being able to called nobles and they didn't want to share power

In today’s society clothes mean everything to people. Clothes represent a class system not only in today’s society and even back in the segregated times. If you are wearing a gucci purse and you are standing next to a lady with either a no name brand purse or a lesser name brand purse people are going to automatically think you are in a higher class system than the other lady wearing a no name brand purse. That is how it was in segregated times, the whites would have the best high end clothing and would be dressed properly for whatever occasion there was, while blacks did not have that type of luxury also whites portrayed blacks as wearing rags in pictures and movies, this said a lot about the blacks such as they could not afford nice things,

The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most remarkable periods of English history. Under Elizabeth's rule, England enjoyed eternal peace and prosperity. The English people had more time and money in their hands to purchase luxuries and pursuit leisure activities, and gradually, this was the beginning of consumer culture (Elgin 6). As a result, clothing became the most obvious way of displaying newfound wealth. Clothing became a way to display wealth because it was much more extravagant in the Elizabethan Era than previous time periods. Clothing became more elegant because of Queen Elizabeth, who set the ravishing fashion trends. The display of lavishness and fancy clothing were not for the aristocracy alone but also for the rising middle class.

A day for a woman in ancient Egypt would be like any normal day, like waking up to prepare breakfast for her husband; women would wear linen dress that would keep them comfortable from the rough heat, and world wear a reed necklace with an amulet of a goddess Tawaret, who is believed to protect a woman and her baby during child birth difficulties (many gods are goddesses, like ISIS too who are equal to male gods). Even unhealthy women can afford servants to help her keep the house and take care of the kids; they would go to the market to bring groceries like lentils, chickpeas, vegetables, honey since sugar was not discovered yet, and meat. But meat was mainly for special occasions because meat was expensive to buy and eat every single

When disccusing the gender identity and fashion relation subject, it is neccessary to explore the it‘s association with the movement of feminism.The wave of feminism in 1960‘s and 1970‘s made a significant impact towards female attire and gave a new more practical option for women dress. However it can also be said that the fashion itself made an impact towards feminism as it was used as a tool to demonstrate the change in stereotypical gender representations and explore the subject in more depth.

‘’ fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.’’

Throughout the history of fashion it is known that every decade creates a symbolic fashion statement within that time period. In the middle of the twentieth century, from 1939 to 1945 a devastating outbreak of the World War ll took place. This period of time saw many aspect of change including effect of war on the design aspect throughout society. Fashion design was a large impact in World War ll, with a great influence on how people dressed and how it reflected their identity. The war created an end to extravagant clothing, and replaced by clothing that was more practical and durable to withstand the stresses of life during this period of time. Throughout this era there was a great majority of uniformity amongst the population all over the