The Evolution of Fashion: A Reflection of Culture, Identity, and Innovation

The Evolution of Fashion: A Reflection of Culture, Identity, and Innovation

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utilized concepts of cultural appropriation, leather riding jacket and as a result, such movements as black lives matter have placed entire industries under siege, especially fashion in which the cultural and ethnic diversity practices of women are for profit appropriation. All this has changed public perception of racial and ethnic representations and has highlighted the necessity for interdisciplinary dialogues about such social constructions.

The Historical Perspective
The very roots of fashion as it is known today, do not go back in history more than couple of centuries. In ancient societies, for example, clothing was indicative of the order of its wearer, because the choice of materials, ornating patterns and designs pertained to social ranking. Linens, as well as other similar soft fabrics, were used by Egyptians, while the Romans used warm and soft wool and shimmering silks. A very different approach was taken in the so-called ‘Renaissance fever’ epoch; the age of rich, sumptuous and decorated clothing. The expansion of amalgamation of new civilizations also led to the increase in the number of new styled apparel such as centuries old traditional silks brought from Asian countries.

In the modern age that the twentieth century embodies, precisely in the history of fashion we cannot speak of an evolution progress towards a goal. The popularity of the ready to wear category of garments made good fashion timeless and fitted for even the very last man in the street. Innovators like Coco Chanel and Christian Dior transformed the women’s wear industry by defying the existing principles and even encouraged women to wear clothes that exuded comfort also. When Marilyn Monroe embarrassed the mini skirt during the 1960’s, produced by the famous designer Mary Quant, it was not about a clothing style that changed; it was a battle of morals against those of the conservatives. Marcel’s passionate swirls.

Femininity is equally important in men’s wear, the designers explained. And many pressed moths have cigarette cases – so people took them, often – in fact, queens, from their enemies who, because of political situations, did not like them. Wives of officers passionately sewing uniforms donned elaborate dresses after banquets. Some of them contained newspapers on periods of peace – and photographs with fashionable styles, of course,.
Fashion is a necessary part of the self, or is used to define the self in contrast to others, or is negotiated through social interactions with others around the self.

Managing new trends and fads in clothing as a direct opposition to their previous generation cultures becomes a full-time course in sociology. It served a useful function in suggesting the influence which class relations can exert on individual behavior and on the broader shape of society, but it was also very limited. Such proposed debates are essential, worthwhile and challenging, especially in the contexts of such disciplines as education and fashion which place significant emphasis on the aspects of change and development.