Historical costume - the needs of the era

Clothing - a reflection of lifestyle and needs of people from different cultures and beliefs. Appropriate clothing certain class, social class or caste, economic opportunities, as well as the major challenges that this stratum of society imposes, it was mandatory at all times. Afford wearing luxurious dress with stitched stiff locks, skirt extends to three-meter diameter, could hardly simple peasant engaged in cattle and vegetable garden.

The ratio of film to historical costume

European fashion is reflected in the film quite well, but often do not make allowance for the primary defining moment for clothing - material conditions and social situation of a particular stratum of society. Often it seems that during the heyday of Gothic wearing excessively narrow, impractical in a simple physical work clothes could afford even one. Perfect example is the film "Sweeney Todd" - the clearest demonstration of the Gothic style, which has no absolutely no real reference to what was of most Europeans - the poor, the lowest level of artisans, peasants of the time.

On the one hand, it is easy to understand the motives of the producers - are absolutely uninteresting submitted them simple costumes made by hand from the rough cloth and emphasize the elegance of the female breast, do not make more broad shoulders and courageous young sports guys. It is possible that this homeliness clothes of ordinary people played a pivotal role in the fact that the concept of "historical costume" is associated with lush dresses, chain mail and armor, as well as lush costumes embroidered with gold cavaliers.

Military Fashion XVII century

Special attention should wear ordinary soldiers and warriors who had lower ranks - despite the impracticality of the imaginary and severity, tailoring materials provides not only strength, but also convenience for manipulation in such suits. We should also mention the period of the great wars - its peak in XVII century, bringing with it a host of new items of clothing, is now involved in a few other options.

The main feature of outerwear Outerwear: with special warmth   of this period - a large number of buttons, allows modeling of jackets, coats (were called Cossack) different kinds of clothes, do not hesitate to military movement. Fasteners on this cloak is often located on the side seams and along the sleeves that helped transform the long clothes, protection against cold and rain in the shorter version, similar to the modern vests, suitable for hot weather.

At the end of the XVII century a type of clothing, called justacorps - trapezoidal short jacket that fits snugly just in the area of ​​the chest and shoulders, to the bottom of expanding to the formless state. Later, such clothing is no longer fall under the concept of top - in a soldier's wardrobe included cloaks that incite fur Fur - Luxury is timeless   inside. Justacorps had back and side sections which are richly decorated with braid, buttons, or other original materials. These types of clothing can be seen in quite old, but unbeatable in terms of costume film "The Last Valley".

A bit of chain mail

Mail is an armor woven from metal rings. Depending on the size and style, it was the appointment of chainmail cover certain body parts (Easy Chain shirt) or even the full protection of human wounds with cold steel. These garments have been known for thousands of years before the start of a new era, made of several kilograms of simple iron, which extends in a thin wire is twisted into a ring, and intertwined with each other - special skills but patience, such work is not required.

This type of protection was considered weak compared with stronger armor. The popularity of chain mail causes extremely low cost of manufacturing, as well as the relative ease - if the weight of the full armor up to several tens of kilograms, the chain mail to protect the whole body weighed a maximum of 8-10 kilograms. Secured soldiers often put two or even three coats of mail - a jacket made of metal protected the torso, and the second covered the entire body. There were and are as Mail Gloves - Protection for the hands of the thrusting.

Today, this item of clothing is the key to some fan movement, in whose interests include role-playing games Role playing: good to feel like someone else ... . The best known such movements are Tolkienists - fans of creativity of the author of the epic "Lord of the Rings" Tolkien. In addition, fans of Tolkien participate in the formulation of scenes where you can easily see unusual male and female costumes, which absorbed a partial view of the fashion of the XIX century, but not entirely untrue.

Daria Cold

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