fashion lecture history
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Greek Tunics
Doric Peplos: long, flowing and draped tunic
Himation: floor length tunic, occasionally translucent
Chiton Himation
Trade with the East
Chinese Silk Embroidery
Medieval Era
• Dark Ages: • (400–1000)
• Early Gothic: • (1000 – 1200)
• Late Medieval: • (1200 - 1400) •
Medieval Clothes:long sleeves and hemlines, heavy fabric
Beading and Embroidery
Medieval Chainmail Knights wearing suits of Armour
Medieval Tunics
The Emergence of Fashion: Velvet
Crusades 1100-1200
Near Eastern Fabric
Black Plague, Hennins and Poulaines
Medieval Display of Wealth
Changes that brought about the Renaissance
The world was discovered to be round, not flat.
America was “discovered” by Europeans
Guns began to be used in warfare
Protestantism challenged the previously universal hold of the Catholic Church in Western Europe
The printing press made the wide spread distribution of ideas possible
Fashion changes so quickly during the Renaissance that tapestries were out-of-date by the time the were finished
Italian Renaissance Painting
Botticelli Ghirlandaio
Florentine (Northern Italian) Renaissance Styles
Early Renaissance Robes and French Hood
Renaissance Corset
Renaissance Veil (left) and Jewelry (right)
French Hood Snood Typical Hairstyle
Early Renaissance Men's Styles
Doublet, Chemise and CapStill worn today by the Vatican's Swiss Guard
Renaissance Comparison:Farthingales
Princess Elizabeth 1546 Queen Elizabeth circa 1586Spanish Farthingale French Farthingale
Germ
an Farthingale circa 1600
Padded Doublet with peascod belly (left) (right) Jerkin, puffed hose, plumed hat and cape
Ruffled Collars
Slashing and Puffed Sleeves
Common People of the Elizabethan Era