Skirt: history of occurrence

According to the history of fashion, as a matter of skirt wardrobe woman appeared five centuries ago. However, the similarity of the skirt has been among the ancient people. A striking example is the loincloth or skhenti that can be considered the prototype of the mini-skirt. Just at the time the clothes are not divided into male and female, and the same articles of clothing worn by both sexes.

The appearance of the skirt as a subject is a woman's wardrobe in the 16th century. It differs from a dress or tunic is a method of fixing: skirt fastened at the waist. In Spain, trendsetter, the first skirt sewed on a dense cover with insert wooden or metal hoops. These skirts were narrow at the waist and extended downward. No sewing equipment had not yet been used, and all the skirts were sewn by hand. In France, the skirts were easier as was used for sewing lightweight material. And then all the fashion frame skirt came to Germany and called "skirt" has penetrated into the Russian language it is from the German.

In the mid-17th century skeleton form goes out of fashion and are replaced by straight skirts with tails and skirts, draped on the sides. In the 18th century there is a new invention - a skirt on farthingale (flexible plate metal collected in the frame). Later in fashion transparent dresses are easy and soft lines. Naturally, textile printers did not yet exist and how color was more simple than it is now. Despite this, every woman can choose the color and pattern skirt to your taste.

In the middle of the 18th century again it comes to luxury fashion wardrobe items. There are skirts with crinoline (head cover). Later, they are improving, there are straight skirts, decorated with cloth and box pleat. And already in 1913 in fashion narrower skirts, invented by Paul Poiret.

In the 20th century the fashion for skirts changes again: corsets abolished, reduced length. Coco Chanel's famous styling elegant skirt medium length, and pleated skirts. Using overloki price which at the time was affordable, fashion skirts manufactured with a variety of accents. Later, after the Second World War, there is the famous tweed suit with a narrow skirt.

The reduction of the length of the skirt furthest gone Mary Quant, to come up with a mini-skirt. And since 1965, models such short skirts are not inferior to the popularity of the maxi and midi. During the 20th century shaped skirts continued to evolve, depending on the imagination of designers.

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