Draped Garments
Traditional Swahili Garment
East Africa, late 19th century
These women wear hand-painted cloth draped in the style in which free women wore their clothing--one piece covering the upper body and another piece covering the lower body.
Moroccan garment
This Moroccan garment is called gandora and is worn by men in Morocco. It's made of rayon. This garment has masculine embroidery on the front around the neck and arms openings.
Jananese Monk, about 13th century
He wears a vest and long skirtlike garment. A full shawl covers most of the vest and the upper part of his body. His upper garment, which is draped over his left arm, is also green with a floral border made of cut gold leaf.
Tailored Garments
Queen Elizabeth I, 15th and 16th century
This portrait of Queen Elizabeth I shows dress that narrows and elongates the waist through corseting, exaggerates shoulders through the use of padded sleeves and stiffened collar, and distorts the lower body form and proportions by the use of a hooped petticoatand a relatively short hemline. Corseting, shoulder pads, and even hip pads have all been used in this century to accentuate body features deemed beautiful according to current fashion.
typical English yeoman of the early 17th century
The garment was the linen shirt, which was considerably longer and looser than its modern counterpart. Breeches were designed in a variety of styles and fabrics, from elaborate trunk hose to plain knee-length. Stockings were tailored of cloth or could have been the relatively new knit type. A doublet, close-fitting and padded, was the usual upper garment. Capes and loose-fitting coats were the usual outer-wear for men and women.
The color yellow symbolize the king in China. It was banned to normal people. Only king wears the handmade gorgeous tailored garments.
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