Fashion then, fashion now

  In this day in age you could walk outside in a sweatshirt, jeans and converse and no one would mind, but taking a step back in time around the 1700's the people would be horrified by that attire. Back then the common everyday outfit was much above our current styles. For a women she would wear over 10 garments (and that's only for an everyday outfit) If she we're to have company at her home she would wear her finest ballgown. Women never washed they're ballgowns, because they never would touch the skin. Almost every women would wear a corset so tight her shoulder blades would almost be touching...ouch. A 4 foot hoop would be placed under all garments to make her waist appear smaller.
     Men had it a little easier. Only wearing a 3 piece suite, heels, a cane and a white, powdered wig.
This clothing style carried on for hundreds of years slowly becoming more casual.
    1900's fashion. The long trained skirts a large brim hats became a look every women would sport. The clothing was a lot more safer for both men and women because everything became looser and less garments.
People that had less money than all of the higher class people clothes would usually be homemade and lack color.
Things have dramatically changed this passed 100 years. Some would say we seem to be slacking creative taste in our fashion in this day in age, but that's not always true. You go to any modern fashion show these days and you would be shocked at some of theses designs.

The photo you see where everyone is wearing nude clothing was designed my Kanye West, Kanye is a rapper that now has made a clothing 'seasons' as he calls them. He named this season Yeezy season 1. He sells every article of clothing for over 1,000 dollars, some even 10,000 dollars...and that's just for a sweatshirt. To me, when  when I think about that it makes me realize how much the way we dress ourselves has evolved.
If I were to go back when I was only 5 years old and dreaming about becoming a fashion designer (still is my dream!)I would not understand why a designer like Kanye would choose to not design elegant clothing, but maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it' good that we have come to make big changes in something so small over the thousands of years, it helps us create our own identity.
       "Every generation laughs at the old fashion, but follows religiously the new." -Henry David


Sources: 1700's fashion
1900's fashion
Kanye West fashion