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.