Baroque Clothing

Baroque clothes analysis by using 3 principles of design

      

          Baroque is a period in the history of Western arts roughly coinciding with the 17^th century. It is a style that easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. As the period before is Renaissance, it is the period that education is for everybody, not just for the high-class people. This period, people began to be able to read more and interesting in art and culture; these interest makes people care about their looks, which make fashion magazine exist for people to know the latest trend and fashion. This essay will analyze Baroque cloth using 3 principles of design; which are material, comparison, and repetition.

           

          First is material. As an import, cotton was banned during the Baroque period to protect the integrity of the European textile market. Without cotton, the undergarments used linen, although linen was not considered fine enough for outerwear. The outer garments were made from silks, brocades and velvets instead. And another kind of garments was made predominately from wool. Floral and stripes pattern were very popular is this period.

          Second is comparison. In this period, the upper class’s undergarment was made from silks, brocades and velvets and their outer garment was made from silks, brocades and velvets. Lower-class undergarments were made predominately from wool and outer garments made of wool. About colors of cloth, the upper class wore pastels and bright colors. In the early Baroque period, the upper class preferred large floral patterns, but later, the upper class used small scrolling floral patterns and stripes. The middle class wore dark colors and black as a means of showing their wealth. Dying these colors was more difficult and thus more expensive. The poor wore light, dingy shades because they could not afford dyes that would give a pure color. The upper class fashion is lots of layer and decoration. For women, their skirts were layered as many as eight petticoats. For men, their costume was decorated with as many as 600 bows. Both men and women that are wealthy wore their natural hair long and wore elaborately curled wigs in public. The lower class wore fashions that depended on their occupation. Women who worked directly for the middle class or upper class wore a small ruff, a linen chemise and a wool skirt and apron. Those who worked in the cities or the fields and had little or no contact with the upper class would have had very plain woolen attire, like the fashions of previous generations in their caste.

          Third is repetition. The repetition of Baroque costume is curviness of women costume. So does the curviness of the down shoulders collar and curviness of the waistline is repeating each other. The curviness of shoulders is repeating curviness of skirt. And the curls of hair from wig are repeating each other.

Renaissance Clothing

  

Renaissance clothes analysis by using 3 principles of design

            Renaissance is the period that education is for everyone. People pay attention to studying and so does fashion. This is the period that could be say that excessiveness in all areas of costume began. According to Scott R. Robinson site, regardless of the England and France followed Italy’s lead while they stuck to more medieval influenced styles. Germans went to the greatest extremes making “improvements” on the natural silhouette. They put large puffs at the head, shoulders, thighs; small puffs, like boils, over chest, back, arms, legs and fee. They put feathers on their costume, their cloth. This essay will analyze Renaissance clothes using 3 principles of design, which are material, comparison, and proportion.

           First is material, the material of Renaissance are wool, fur, silk, cotton, satin, and flannels. And for accessory, this period jewelry is available although gold and silver. Another accessory is wig, which is crafted from peasant’s hair, is been used. Color of fabric this period is very strong for example red blue or black. White linen was another accent against color of gold and burgundy of collars and wrist ruffles. Black velvet was a staple fabric of the period, especially in headdresses. Mostly people the period are dressed in dark hot tone. And they put silver of gold color of thread to add pattern. And off course fabric that has pattern on itself is quiet popular too.  

          Second is comparison. Fashion represented a big status symbol during the Renaissance. The wealthy were literally “wearing their wealth” as the expensive clothing helped establish a reputation of wealth for the owner. It was usually the wealthy or ruling class that drove Renaissance fashion. However, one very popular fashion trend, the technique of slashing was originated within the lower classes or commoners. The beret was also invented during these times. They were highly decorated by either jewels or embroidery. And fabric are separated the rich and poor too. The upper class reserved silk for themselves, and in some areas, peasants were forbidden to possess it. Wealthy will wear furs, elaborate belts, and wigs.

              Third is proportion, Renaissance clothes. For men, their upper body is usually decorated with lots of thing, many layers of fabric. And lower body they wore only thin tight trouser. The proportion of the outfit is like upside down triangle. For women their upper body is decorated with lots of thing and many layers of fabric as men, lower body is puffy long skirt, Their waist is strap with belt. Proportion of women cloth is like hourglass

Medieval Clothing

Roman clothing

 

                                                       

     Roman clothes analysis by  

     using 3 principles of design

            Roman period is the period that comes after Greek and the time not very far, so their culture is not much different from each other. Roman and Greek were worshipping same God. Roman also admired Greek art. The inspirations of most things are from Greek, same as cloth, their clothes have just a little bit of details that different. This essay will analyze Roman clothes using 3 principles of design, which are material, compare and contrast, and balance.

           First is material, the material of Roman cloth and Greek is the same. They use natural resources and raw material, which are animal skin, wools, linen, cotton, and silk. They also usually not dye their cloth either and use thread to create geometric form for example, lines instead.

                Second is compare and contrast. In this period, woman and men both wear long garment. Roman men wear toga instead of Greek himation (large semicircle of cloth), so it add more layer than the toga. Himation is wear with rectangular or semicircular cloak. The cloak can wear in two different ways; it can pin on the right shoulders or join at the front of the body.  Wealthy men or the warrior wear outerwear kind of like armor but made of animal skin or metal. Roman women wore the ankle-length, pleated dress known as the Stola, which could have long sleeves and fastened at the shoulder with the clasp known as a Fibula. But for the low rank woman such as prostitute will wear Tuga instead. Also woman in this period enjoy going out of their home, they create hairstyle and old woman and young woman is not wearing the same hairstyle.

              Third is balance, Roman clothes are almost one shoulder. And the clothes place upon another shoulder then lean down on in one side of body, so the cloth is not really balancing because one shoulder almost free and another shoulder has many layers of clothes. 

                 

Greek clothing

    

   Greece clothes analysis by using 3 principles of design

                 Greece is the period that people start to build civilization. They starting to have various monuments and statues, housing for priests and visitors, literary competitions, stadium for athletic events, this prototypes of Olympic games today were held, even outdoor dance floor. Artist in this period develop focused and distinctive ideals of human beauty. It’s the period that art develop very fast too. Fashion and trend that’s one kind of art changed and improve over course over a few centuries. This essay we will see what makes Greek clothing different from other period. This essay will analyze Greek clothing by using 3 principles of design, which are material, contrast, and pattern.

                    Firstly is material, clothing in that period designed to be wrapped and draped leaving the right arm free. According to the sculpture of Greek their cloth has waver movement, silk and cotton are exist, but silk and cotton only wealthy people that can afford. Others usually use wool. Also linen is available. About dying color, people in that period most of their cloth were not dyed. But dye color is still from natural color like other period for example, Egypt of Mesopotamian.

                     Second is contrast, most of people wear tunic as the basic garment (a loose garment, typically sleeveless and reaching to the wearer's knees, as worn in ancient Greece), It could also be an under garment. For woman Greek woman wear peplos which is the square of cloth with top third folded over and pinned at the shoulders. And as mentioned before, the material tells the wealthiness of people. Wealthy people usually wear cotton and silk, others will wear wool or linen.

                       Third is pattern. Greek pattern is geometric and abstract pattern. Eventhogh pattern 

   mostly come from the waviness of cloth, but in terms of little details they usually add a little bit of

   geometric designs using colored thread.

                       In conclution, Greek cloth has develope a lot from the period before, their cloth show

    more of the human figure and the material are develope too.