The history of fashion (1) - In the beginning was the fur

The origins of clothing and fashion as we know it today, many thousands are back already and rich to the very beginnings of human history. In our new series of " history of fashion "we draw the evolution of fashion from pure protection from environmental influences on the demarcation of different affiliations able, to the expression of individual personality after.

Clothes - On the need for a status symbol

Clothing is one next to food and shelter to the basic needs of a human being. It fulfills a protective function against environmental influences such as cold or rain , protects against injuries at work, in transport or in sports. However, one can apparel that serves this functional aspect and fashion that rather pursues the benefits of self-expression or the expression of status differ.

Even the Neanderthals years ago about 130 000 appended to protect it from the cold of the ice age unprocessed animal skins around their bodies. The first processed cloth of the Stone Age, before about 35 000 years ago, consisted of the skin of hunted animals and of plant fibers or tree bark. Already in the early Stone Age man started clothes in different shapes, colors and patterns to produce and thus created body coverings that served far more purposes than the protection from the weather. Historians believe that from the very beginning a particularly beautiful coat has also served as decoration or award. Prehistoric hunters also believed that the spirit of a dead animal over would go to them if they were wearing his coat. So clothing signaled very early on about the position, which had a man in society. The clothing of the Stone Age people had already then refinements such as belts , buttons and hats. Thus, there was also the vanity and not only the usefulness, at the dawn of the clothes.

Revolutionized by the sewing needle

For the fashion historian James lavas, the invention of the sewing needle is - the first were incidentally made from animal bones - one of the most important technological advances in human history. Researchers suspect that the spinning and weaving already 4000-3000 BC. was invented in Egypt.

The social power of fashion

Fashion is derived from the Latin word mode, which means as much as degree, fashion or contemporary taste. The word fashion is since the 15th century in France and in use refers to the most recent home sewer. The main features of fashion are always the silhouette, the color and the materials. Most striking is looking back but the silhouette, like the shape of the skirt and its length, the upper part with certain sleeves and also the posture that characterized for example by the respective lacing. The fashion influences not only the clothing, but the whole appearance (face, hair, jewelry), behavior (gait, posture) and living environment (home furnishings, cars, etc.). The "dictates of fashion", most people submit consciously or unconsciously. In any case, the fashion has always exercised a social power by either demarcated social layers or always pretended ideals of beauty.

Fashion in epochs

By the Romanesque period, the women's and men's clothes differed only slightly. Only in the 14th century, people began to develop sophisticated cutting techniques, so the clothes more varied and colorful was close-fitting and new materials from the Orient.

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