Sunday, December 7, 2008

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.