Before we had egos and a sense of fashion we simply wore clothing to keep us warm and to protect our bodies from public view. Primitive cultures used animal skins as clothing, making hats and capes from leather and coats from fur. This practice can be traced back as early as six hundred and fifty thousand years ago. Once man developed the concept of sewing, needles were carved out of wood and bone to make other types of outer garments. Archeologists in many places have found sewing needles, but the earliest recorded find was in the Republic of Georgia, where a needles and other clothing dating back around 36,000 years were found.
Clothing literally became more important as a mark of the ego. Prior to that, clothes were mere commodities for keeping warm but as we became a more cultured society and conscious human race we developed the need to create style and fashion. Through the many hundreds of thousands of years of clothes, it was only around the sixteenth century that we started to follow a fashion and that was probably more of an accident than a deliberate ploy. During the French Renaissance period the white wigs and the powered skin were a fashion accessory that people of money followed. Later, various societies and generations adopted clothing and style fads.
Modern and Contemporary Clothing
Modern clothing could be said to have started somewhere in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Just after the Victorian era, the world went to war and this seemed to spark a care-free attitude after the European Victory. The 1920’s saw prosperity like never before around the world. America was growing as a super power and Europe was the center of industry and innovation. Clothing changes more or less every decade and many decades can be defined by the dominant dress- style. For instance, the 1980’s were famous for the huge shoulder pads, the 1990’s were famous for jeans and backward baseball caps and the noughties were known for the kush shirt, human and civil rights, and political freedom. People use clothes as a statement and the statement becomes a fashion icon among many youngsters and these are the people who propagate the fashion industry.
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