12/12/08 ROAR

12/8/08 ROAR

A History of Costume
By: Rachel H. Kemper

5comments:

• The age of the crusades saw great advances in the design of armor.
• William the Conqueror had amply demonstrated in 1066 the importance of mailed calvary.
• The mail suit offered vivd protection and was flexible enough to allow free movement.
• Orental costume had a major impact on the styles worn by the masters of th Crusader kingdom in the Levant.
• The craze for exotic and extravagant attire passed and Western costume expressed a new sense of simplicity and uniformity.

4questions:

• How did the age of the crusades infleuence the new design in armor?
• What did William amply demonstrate?
• How did these mail suits become so popular?
• What happened to the craze of exotic clothing?

3vocabulary:

• amply:sufficiently; more than adequately; "the evidence amply (or fully) confirms our suspicions"; "they were fully (or amply) fed."
• levant:The Levant is a geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East, roughly bounded on the north by the Taurus Mountains, on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by Upper Mesopotamia, and on the south by the Arabian Desert.
• extravagant:exceeding the bounds of something; extreme; exorbitant

1overview statement:

• The age of the Crusaders brought the invention of new armor to light it also changed the way people went fromextravagant clothing to Western type of theme.

12/7/08 ROAR

A History of Costume
By: Rachel H. Kemper

5comments:

• The 1870s and 80s in the United States decades of frantic activity and progress.
• The tailored suit was perhaps the most characteristic garment of the era.
• The twentieth century was ushered it at last, hailed variously as the Age of Optimisim, the Age of Confidence, curiously, and the Age of Innocence.
• Fashions were elegant and intensely feminine.
• Tailored suits and crisp shirtwaist outfits were still popular but many young women began ligerie dress.

4questions:

• What infleuenced the style f tailored suits?
• Why did women prefer to wear lingerie?
• Why did men like tailored suits?
• Why was fashion considered feminine?

3vocabulary:

• conspicuous:Obvious or easy to notice; Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive
• gauze:Gauze is a thin, translucent fabric with a open weave. Its name may derive etymologically from the Persian word for silk, via the Spanish word "gasa".
• emancipation:freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

1overview statement:

• In the 20th century fashion was considered elegant and intenesly feminine and women began to wear lingerie because it became fashionable.

12/7/08 ROAR

A History of Costume
By: Rachel H. Kemper

5comments:

• Revolutionaries created their own styles.
• In 1789 women wore a simple gown, the gualle a white dress worn under a blue regitone with a red collar.
• Silks and velvets were seldom seen; it really was not ssafe to wear luxury fabrics.
• Their costumes was essentially of the average man of the period but with all details.
• The most significant infleuence on women's costume of this period was the rediscovery of classical antiquity.

4questions:

• What infleuenced the women's clothing during that period?
• Why were men's clothing so complicated?
• Why weren't silks and velvet safe to wear back then?
• What infleuenced the rediscovery of classical antiquity?

3vocabulary:

• biocornes:beaver hat
• neoclassic:A stylistic classification applied to certain works of the 20th-century composed between the world wars (Stravinsky’s Pulcinella being a prime ...
• tublar:a type of dress.

1overview statement:

• People changed their type of dress through different stages of history.

12/7/08 ROAR

A History of Costume
By: Rachel H. Kemper

5comments:

• At the wake of the Crusades paved the way for the emergence ofthe Renaissance.
• Cultural orientation, Renaissance man looked back to classical antiquity and attempted to create a way of life based on the glories of ancient Greece and the grandeur of ancient Rome.
• Renaissance society was essentially urban, its roots deep in town life.
• This sparked the invention of different types of style and clothing.
• It sparked the interest in new countries.

4questions:

• What infleuenced people to embrace the Renaissance?
• Why did it take so long for this to happen?
• Why was this so popular in Europe?
• Did these new styles change the way people viewed eachother

3vocabulary:

• grandeur: magnificence: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his ...
  nobility: the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
• secularism: The view or belief that society's values and standards should not be influenced or controlled by religion or the Church; Derivative
• dynamism:any of the various theories or doctrines or philosophical systems that attempt to explain the phenomena of the universe in terms of some immanent ...

1overview statement:

• The Renaissance infleuenced a lot of changes during the Middle Ages, this encouraged the invention of new clothing and styles.

12/6/08 ROAR

A History of Costume
By: Rachel H. kemper

5comments:

• Greek costume evolved out of a combination of Doric and Ionic elements.
• The basic costume for men was the exioms, a strip of cloth fastened on the left shoulder and the right arm free.
• Womens costume was equally uncomplicated.
• Athenian women were not allowed to retain their Doric pelpos for long.
• Ionic costume was popular on the mainland.

4questions:

• Why weren't women allowed keep their pieces for long?
• How was Greek costume formed?
• Why was Ionic costume popular in the mainland?
• Why were men's clothing so basic?

3vocabulary:

• pelpos:
• exioms:In traditional logic, an axiom or postulate is a proposition that is not proved or demonstrated but considered to be self-evident.
• Ionic:One of the five classical orders, characterized by capitals with spiral elements called "volutes," a fasciated entablature, continuous.

1overview statement:

• Men and women had very different styles of clothing during the course of history and they were dressed according to their society.

12/6/08 ROAR

A History of Costume
By: Rachel H. Kemper

5comments:

• Society doctors tell of drastic changes to the body to permit physical beauty.
• Men in Africa are splendidly draped in ornaments like trophy skins attesting his skill as a hunter.
• Men often hunted animals and used their fur as a costume and used for their flesh.
• A thick bearskin once the bear no further use for it went a long way toward keeping out the cold.
• Paleolithic costume probably evolved into an outfit similar to traditional Eskimo attire-a semi fitted jacket and pants.

4questions:

• What did the animal skin do for these people?
• Did it show some kind of power?
• How did this create Eskimo attire?
• What did the bearskin do for them?

3vocabulary:

• Attest:To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine; To certify by signature or oath; To certify in an official capacity; To supply or be evidence of; To put under oath
• Splendidly:excellently: extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously"
• Paleolithic:An early part of the Stone Age, before the so-called Mesolithic and Neolithic Stone Age periods (lithic meaning stone or rock)

1overview statement:

• Men hunted animals to show their strength in their community.

12/6/08 ROAR

A History of Costume
By:Rachel H. Kemper

5comments:

• Man's first clothing was a potent weapon for war.
• The use of ornaments such as necklaces became popular.
• Costume was alsoused to enhance man's earliest religious rituals.
• Religious costume retained magical significance throughout much of human history.
• The curious fashion trend has been around ever since the Renaissance.

4questions:

• What started the use of costumes?
• What did costumes have to do with religion?
• What about the ornaments atrracted female attention?
• Were these costumes used for war?

3vocabulary:

• embellishments:Term used to describe personalized engraving or additional ornamentation added to a knife after it is manufactured.
• rudimentary:Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
• relating to viewing simple material phenomena as resultant from innate spiritual beings within the subject matter.

2literary terms:

• "you solute the uniform and not the man."

1overview statement:

• Costumes have been used to define and distinguish men and women throughout history also to shape the appearence of a society.