Baroque clothes analysis by using 3 principles of design
Baroque
is a period in the history of Western arts roughly coinciding with the 17th
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.
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