The History Of Western Fashion(Clothing Fashion) Kate Audu.

The History Of Fashion (clothing Fashion)

Early western travelers traveling whether to India, Persia, Turkey or China would frequently remark on the absence of change in fashion in those countries.
The Japanese shogun's secretary bragged (not completely accurately) to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over thousands of years.
However there's considerably evidence in ming China of rapidly changing fashion in Chinese clothing,changes in costumes often took place at times of economic or social change,as occurred in ancient Rome & the mediaeval caliphate, followed by a long period without major changes.
In 18th century Moorish Spain, the musician ziryab introduced to Cordoba sophisticated styles of clothing based on seasonal and daily fashions from his native Baghdad, modified by his own inspiration similar changes in fashion occurred in the 11th century in the middle east following the arrival of the Turks who introduced clothing styles from central Asia and the far east.

The beginning in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated.
Historians including James Laver and Fernard  Braudel,dated  the start of western fashion in clothing,to the middle of the 14th century though they tend to rely heavily on contemporary imagery and illuminated manuscripts were not common before the 14th century.
The most dramatic early change in fashion was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over-garment from calf-length to barely covering the buttocks, sometimes accompanied with stuffing in the chest to make it looks bigger.
This created the distinctive Western  outline of a tailored top won over leggings or trousers.

The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women and men's fashion, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair became equally complex.

To be continued.....