History of Dress (5 Parts)

Synopsis: 1: Ways in which clothes have been used throughout history to accentuate, disguise, distort and hide the body.
2: Fabric and style, how the materials from which clothes are made have varied, and how the form of costume is conditioned by the fabrid used.
3: The way in which dress has been used as a means of communicating certain facts about the wearer, such as social status, age, geographical region, etc.
4: Ritual costume such as religious, academic and legal dress. The role of dress in chivalry.
5: The development of sporting dress since ancient Greek times and the social and practical reasons behind the use of different sytles and uniform.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Multimedia; Audiocassette. 5 x 20 min.; Filmstrip. 35mm. col. 29, 32, 30 35, 30 frames.
Year of production: 1977
Availability: out of distribution
Uses: Art students.*
Subjects: Sociology
Keywords: clothing; fashion design

Title: Shape of fashion
Synopsis: 1: Ways in which clothes have been used throughout history to accentuate, disguise, distort and hide the body.
Title: Fabric and style
Synopsis: 2: Fabric and style, how the materials from which clothes are made have varied, and how the form of costume is conditioned by the fabrid used.
Title: Dress and communication
Synopsis: 3: The way in which dress has been used as a means of communicating certain facts about the wearer, such as social status, age, geographical region, etc.
Title: Ritual and ceremony
Synopsis: 4: Ritual costume such as religious, academic and legal dress. The role of dress in chivalry.
Title: Sporting dress
Synopsis: 5: The development of sporting dress since ancient Greek times and the social and practical reasons behind the use of different sytles and uniform.

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