Evolution of fashion
Fashion
is a term that is used to describe a popular style of dressing. Fashion
can be used to describe clothes, accessories, shoes, make up, bags and
even hair styles. When you talk about fashion, it usually means the
clothes and accessories that are worn by trend setters in society. Trend
setters in a society are those people who are believed to have a sense
of fashion. What they wear and how they wear it is what people refer to
as fashion. Musicians, famous actors and actresses, models, fashion
designers and bloggers as well as major television and radio
personalities are the major trend setters in most societies when it
comes to fashion.
Throughout the years, fashion has been altered and transformed into
what it is today. Fashion began further back than people can remember.
In the 1800's woman were under a much more strict dresscode than
fashion today with their legs covered with long, layered dresses and
arms being covered with cuffs usually past their wrists. Fashion began
to reform itself in the 1920's with the flapper generation consisting of
short skirts. Throughout the years till the 1960's, the old and the new
created a new form of relaxed dresscodes with still the touch of the
old glamour. Up until the millenium, each decade seemed to have one
distinct fashion. the 1960's created the hippie era, the 1970's the
disco era, the 1980's introduced headbang metal fashions and powersuits,
and grunge and retro looks overtook the 1990's. Then there was the
millenium, the 2000's consisting of looks from all of these eras, being
modernized and altered in new fashions but almost always using the past
fashions to establish todays fashions.
