Fashion and beauty - a historical perspective

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More than 40 000 years the inhabitants of western Europe were adorned with jewelry made of ivory and bone. Clothing worn to protect your body from the elements of the cover or provide for modesty sake, came much later. The people of northern Europe, probably the first animal skins wrapped around BC in a shelter from the cold as the 25000th in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, were fibers from plants such as flax, and to form the hair of goats and sheep tissueslightweight fabrics, which not only provided protection against the sun's rays, but also meant social status. The earliest of these tissues, in Anatolia, Turkey, made, around 6500 BC.

As civilizations developed, so dress designed and developed. In Egypt, Greece and Rome were draped dresses, while the people of northern Europe and the Orient, was laced to tubular. is borne in the toga of the classical world, not only by governments but also by philosophers and teachers was toas a symbol of civilization. Breeches and tunics were typical of the barbarians on the other hand, tribal societies.

But the idea of fashion, with its cycles of ever-changing styles and trends, first took off in the middle of 1300 in Paris, London and the Italian city-states, if the elite had to show their clothes flowing for close-fitting clothes decorated with the latest flavor. Men's clothes, prior to the ankle, now reaching above the knee, while women's clothing wastransformed from lace, buttons, and the introduction of the neckline. While people wanted to change their silhouette on a regular basis - a trend that has coincided with a growth of international trade in textiles - both tailored and developed.

Early fashion store was the elite, their social superiority prohibit artisans 'sumptuary laws' and Yeoman, the use of expensive fabrics and richly embroidered test. But the French code of the association on a solid basissocial hierarchy and etiquette of the court, was repealed by the revolution of 1789. abandoned elaborate wigs and powdered hair were men's clothes were no longer decorated with embroidery and lace taken, and the women the empire dress simple. The style was a sign of individual freedom, itself adopted. It is no longer the preserve of the nobility, it soon became associated with the avant-garde, romantic writers and artists, political activists and dandy.

In the UK, affordable,Mass-produced fabrics and accessories were provided by the industrial revolution. These were popular among the middle class, as a means of giving them new confidence and success seen. For men, power was now the economy, not the judge. The dark suit, a male "uniform", while dressing the women of the family presented by their condition and that of their children. Femininity and fashion are inextricably linked. Women from petticoats and weighed themMobility limited by delicate shoes.

At the end of 1800, began attempts to make women dress more "meaningful." But the ideals of beauty and fashion rule instead of offering, with department stores copies ready for the latest styles in magazines, company and photographs submitted by early 1900, the cinema. From these early days of consumer-oriented 20th century beauty and fashion industries launched.