Fashion refers to the customs that make any specific time or place, especially those related to dress or adorn.
And it is that fashion is like the massive, imposed or acquired, as opposed to clothing, perfumes, glasses, colors, and everything that is linked with beauty. Not only the women, as men, with increasing force, joins the cries of fashion.
Fashion is that, regarded today. What is being used in a given period. Earlier, the fashion was a bit more stable, not changing so fast. Today, the fashion changes from season to season and year to year. The current fashion is not lasting, so you always have to watch what is going to use next season.
With regard to the history of fashion, the first traces of this can be found even in prehistoric times. Since humans are also dressed. At first, they used animal skins to cover. In addition, teeth and claws of animals were used to form necklaces, worn by men and women. Over time, clothes were more elaborate and women began to paint the face.
Later, with the arrival of the first great civilization, the Sumerian, fashion changed dramatically. This, as it was beginning to make, style of clothes a lot more elaborate. Also begin to build houses for their gods and palaces; everything was decorated with great eagerness.
After the Egyptians came to polish everything. These people were quite vain. With much care it looks. Moreover, men and women, shave their heads, only to use wigs. They were people who used much jewelry. It also paints for the face. Similar, they were fans of the perfume.
So did the Greeks, who usually used the toga. Garments made of wool, which came up to the knees in men and even women in heels. The Romans in turn, used the famous toga. This passed by a shoulder and gave a return below the arm. Men and women used it. Also, women are quite concerned about their hair. Thus, were a regular comb and form quite elaborate headdresses.
Over the centuries, the fashion was being increasingly refined. For example, in the middle Ages, clothing used by men and women, was much more complex than the one used by the aforementioned civilizations. Similarly, women used more long dresses and jewels. Few areas of the body remained in the light of men. This period was marked by restraint and condemnation against it considered bad manners.
So later in the eighteenth century, fashion was what she wore the upper class of the Old Continent, especially France. They were aristocrats, who wore a French mode or taste. Therefore, he had to reach the Industrial Revolution, to the bourgeoisie, to wear to fashion. As the finest fabrics, like perfumes and other accessories, were only up until that time, the aristocracy of Europe. This, because of the costs.
At that time began an increase in the population. This increase was caused by the reduction of mortality rates, especially the children, plus an extension of the age. Of 100 children born, 50 reached the 20 years. War, famine and epidemics, produced thousands of deaths. After the 1750 crisis tended to decrease a product of better nutrition and advances in medicine and cleaning. Scientifically learned to fight cholera, smallpox, typhus and tuberculosis, eliminating infectious.
Furthermore, the population tended to migrate to cities seeking work, especially from the countryside to the factories. Along with this improved agriculture through irrigation of land, crop rotation, fertilizers and use of equipment in the field. Moreover, the price of grain rose.
Proceeds from the large quantity of cotton arrived in England that were established looms, machines spun cotton; it changed the mode of use of cotton wool, but at first only used cotton nobility, the people still using wool. In the late eighteenth century, beginning to be the first journal devoted to research and shows everything to the current fashion.
But the main thing in fashion is that this reflects the culture of a country or place, as the economic changes that arise in them. Fashion is not the same everywhere. Even the weather is a powerful factor, when considering what is fashionable in some place or another within the balloon.
jueves, 16 de abril de 2009
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