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Fundamentals of Fashion

 Fundamentals  of  Fashion 


Earliest clothing

The earliest clothing dates from about 20,000 B.C.

The earliest clothes were developed primarily for protection from the weather and environment.

The earliest clothes were made of animal hide, fur, leaves, and grass. 

                                                                        

Why do people wear clothes ?                 1. Physical Needs 

  • Protection
  •  Safety

2. Psychological Needs 

  • Identity
  • Adornment
  • Cultural identity 

3. Social Needs

  • Affiliation/ fitting
  • Standards
Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in : 
Clothing 
Accessories
Home Furnishing 









Fashion refers to a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style with which a person dresses as well as to prevailing styles in behaviour.

History of modern Fashion 

  • Fashion began in Europe in the middle of 14th century.
  • In preceding millennium both men & women wore simple T-shaped tunics.
  • Jewels, furs and rich fabrics signified rank.
  • Silhouette changed approximately every 50 years.
  • The 17th century saw an excess of laces and bows and daring men in knee-high boots.
  • Men appeared more fashion conscious than women with their long, curled hair, abundant lace, colorful doublets & breeches. 
  • History show that until the early 19th century elite men were the first to adopt new idea in fashion.
  • Their clothes were made from newest and most luxurious materials. They showed more bodice than women. 
  •  Fashion history is full of how the body  has been distoried.
History of modern Fashion cont.
  • Distortion was done through restriction & padding such as stuffing the front of men's doublet to make the peascod belly, wearing a burn roll around the hips to extend a woman's skirt into a drum like Shape.
  • Fashion acquires means of spreading news about innovations, Royalty expected courtreis to dress in latest styles, often gifting fashionable clothes of them. 
  • After the innovation of printing press in 1450s of various countries income available.
  • The 19th century saw the birth of fashion.
  • Fashion participation was restricted to the elite prior to 19th century.
  • Sumptuary laws preventent people from dressing above their social status.
  • The invention of fashion magazines & mass produced/ready to wear. 
  • In the century many technological advances accelerating making of textile like mechanised spinning of  parest pnvention of quickest speed up the wearing of cloth and new method of dying.










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