Cultural development of Western-style dress retrospective

History of the Ministry of apparel is actually the history of human civilization, as a senior categories of dress and its history are bound to geographical, social, racial, class linked, but no matter what social, geographical, ethnic, lower working class to run around for a living , strained to such ceremonial clothing, most likely, the most direct and promote its development by none other than the non-aristocratic rulers. Therefore, the development process is actually dress upper social history of costume changes.

Ancient Greece 1700 BC a former 1550's DPRK aristocratic dynasty of three generations of women Minnow worn bare chest, sleeves to the elbow, chest, waist-bit thread in the breast below under dressed bell-shaped dress, overall tight fit dress costume is the earliest prototype.

16th Century European Renaissance appeared with tights and panniers, dress concept gradually clarity. Fantasy, deliberately novelty, achieve personal aspirations of the Renaissance, in opposition under the banner of asceticism began modeling in the clothing of the change on the performance of the human body and the beauty of curves.

Emphasis on women's wear waist abundant buttocks, began to emerge in the Middle Ages tights and panniers create a perfect combination of strange and wonderful image of women in the same period began to use filler to create a three-dimensional effect, the clothing as a kind of three-dimensional modeling to design arts , so that the performance of three-dimensional appearance of the clothing itself, expanding and enriching the designer's ideas for the design of subsequent draping dress was foreshadowing.

17-18 century swept Europe fabulous luxury Baroque art and Rococo art lightweight slim maximize the show and promote the dress grand, magnificent style.

Starting in the 1930s, women's wear design in artificial swelling began to disappear, the petticoat skirt instead of scaffolding, hard, soft bras gradually, tight collar on the nest dug a deep and wide, almost all of the breast over the shoulder chest exposed. The last few decades there has been "hold Qunyao pad" greatly exaggerated female buttocks. After hip skirt hypertrophy, dragging on behind, is a "trailing evening dress", "trailing wedding" of the ancestors, the two special attention during the decorative clothing, and large multi-colored lace skirt swirls, ribbons , chest, cuffs, hats decorated to the extreme, filling the extravagant palace of winds.

The modern sense of "dress" the peculiar term, although in the late 19th and early 20th century, only to be clearly stated. But its development process and this is definitely not start, its ceremonial occasions, style, decor is slowly evolved in ancient times, its development process is the study of human civilization, especially the importance of the upper ruling class textual history, but also the derivation of the future development trends of the dress important reference