Much of today’s fashion was based from the clothes before according to one fan fashion. Unexcited fan fashion people concerning renaissance dresses do not know about its significance that it has effect today’s fashion.

In the past 16th century, dressing well has already started. The existence of the old paintings and portraits of both men and women, young and old, rich and poor from the past that depicts their life clearly paints the truth that they where dressed in clothes that looked becoming on to  them. For your information, not all has the same social position, and not all of them has the capability to purchase costly wears. And yet, they maintained a distinct fashion sense and no matter how poor or rich they were then, they were still able to dress nicely. Social status is another factor that affects in dressing up.

If you remember it correctly, the men and women of the renaissance era were known to dress according to their wealth, importance in society and their social status. As a consequence, lovely type of fabrics where limited to the poor and are widely available for the rich.

But how does this all come into play?

Note, isn’t it obvious that, intentionally or unintentionally, the clothes we wear is a replica of our own social rank, much more of our prosperity? Today’s businessmen wear tux and socialities wear cocktail dress while ordinary men and women are at ease with shirts and pants as their garments, exactly how will  you explicate this?

If you are to become more keen and observant, can you see that the rich deliberately display their diamond studded earrings and gold plated necklaces for everyone to see? It’s absolutely not a coincidence.

I conclude that our fashion now is a likeness of what we had before- the significance was given to people who are or were rich than the others. Yes, it might be, because ‘it is more pleasant to look at’ then would this realization be conceivable that most likely all of these are all because of tradition?

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