More than 40 000 years, the population of Western Europe with ornaments made of ivory and bone decorated. Clothing worn to protect their bodies from the elements, or simply to cover for reasons of modesty, came much later. The people of northern Europe, probably the first animal skins hung around him as protection from cold in about 25,000 BC. In the Mediterranean and the Middle East, the fibers from plants such as flax, and the hair of goats and sheep, were together on light fabric, which not only protection from the rays of the sun, but also the importance of social status. As civilizations developed, designed and dress. In Egypt, Greece and Rome, the clothes were draped, sewed while people in northern Europe and the East, contributed tubular garments. In the traditional dress worn by not only governments but also by philosophers and teachers, was considered a symbol of civilization. Trousers and shirts were, but as typical barbaric, tribal societies.
But the idea of fashion, with cycles of changing styles and trends, first occupied in mid 1300 in Paris, London and the Italian city states, where the elite rejected their flowing robes for tight clothing decorated, showing the new taste.
Menswear , which formerly was only now above the knee, while the women, the dress is transformed lace, buttons, and the introduction of the split. Since the people wanted their forms on a regular basis – a trend, the change coincided with a growth of international trade in textiles thus cut – developing and tuning.
The first belonged to the fashionable elite, their social superiority “sumptuary laws that dealers should be prohibited and the small farmers to take expensive and richly embroidered fabrics sought to preserve. But the French code of dress, based on a social hierarchy and courtly manners , was overthrown by the revolution of 1789. Advanced powdered wigs and her abandoned, men’s suits were not decorated with embroidery and lace, and women adopted the simple dress Empire. The style has become a symbol of individual freedom, of course . No longer the domain of the nobility, it soon became associated with avant-garde, romantic writers and artists, political activists and dandy.
Printed in Great Britain, affordable mass-produced textiles and fashion accessories by the industrial revolution were made available. The suit has become a black male ‘uniform’, while the women paraded status of the family, through their clothes and their children. Femininity and fashion were intertwined and inseparable. The women were charged with petticoats and their mobility limited by his shoes.
In the late 1800 began testing in women dress more “sensitive” to make. But ideals of beauty and fashion, with department stores offer ready-to-one copy of the latest trends in magazines, photographs of the Company since 1900 and the cinema.
From these early consumer-oriented fashion in the 20th Century and beauty industries have been opened.