Evolution of Fashion

 

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.