What is a dress?

A gown is a dress that is worn on solemn occasions or ceremonies, such as an evening gown or a dress that is worn as a rule for important ceremonies. A dress is a dress with a skirt as its basic style feature, and it is a solemn and formal dress worn by participants in certain major occasions.

There are various classifications of dresses, and the traditional Western dress includes the morning dress, the small dress (dinner dress or tuxedo), and the large dress (tuxedo). Evening gowns are not included in the traditional Western dresses.

The only men's ceremonial dress for the Beijing Olympics is the flag-raiser's dress: the flag-raiser's dress, which echoes the celadon gown, reflects traditional Chinese culture without losing its masculinity, and will be seen in all Olympic and Paralympic venues. All Olympic dresses and flag-raiser uniforms are embroidered with the words "BEIJING2008".

Expanded:

p>The creation of the gown is related to the various rituals and celebrations of early mankind. From this, it can be inferred that the original purpose of the formation of the gown was to honor solemn ceremonies. There are many factors affecting the development of the dress, and in different times, different ethnic groups, and different geographical environments, people's needs for the dress will be different due to the limitations and changes in history, culture, economy, and other conditions.

Specifically, the clothing styles, fabrics, colors, patterns and collocation will be very different; at the same time, the dress is also due to the identity, class, occupation, age, gender and etiquette of the weight, the time is different from the different morning and evening and make a difference.

From the point of view of the dress style modeling, dresses are mainly skirt structure, so the origin of the dress can be traced back to the European Renaissance, when the most characteristic of women's clothing is widely popular in the hoop skirt, it is said that the wife of France's Henri IV, Marguerite, wanted to use the puffy hoop skirt to cover up her less than plump It is said that Marguerite, the wife of Henry IV of France, wanted to cover her less-than-perfect buttocks with a bulging hoop skirt.

So the Spanish conical (i.e., small on the bottom of the big) hoop skirt changed to add a wheel-shaped hoop frame at the waist, so that the hip circumference is very full, so that the waist looks more slender. At the same time, in order to make the waist more slender, all kinds of corsets also appeared one after another.

Rococo period dress, by the court ladies took the lead in wearing, in the Rococo delicate and rich characteristics of the basis, through the Oriental landscape patterns and auspicious text and other elements, in order to express the exquisite beauty of the style of the ceremonial moon dip.

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