Clothing has been something important to us since a very young age. At one point in time, the concept of clothing has become a necessity for humankind. This particular concept has seen a lot of upgrades since its origination. With a little infusion of stylishness and dynamism, the concept of clothing has become a lot wider. Most of all, clothing has become an influential factor for people worldwide.
There are different clothing styles available for people worldwide. It takes a person tons and tons of time to learn and discover things in the field of clothing and fashion. The study has now become one of the mainstream courses since an early age. We have professions related to fashion and clothing as well.
So what makes this concept of clothing interesting? What are the different clothing styles seen by us mankind? Sit back and continue reading this article to learn more about this interesting concept without delay!
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1) The History of Clothing
There are certain mythologies and beliefs which associate mankind with his consciousness towards clothing. Most of the mythologies revolve around how man has developed a sense of protecting his nudity. One such famous belief is Christianity.
After the famous duo, Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they developed a sense of consciousness that projected shame when they witnessed nudity. This was how the concept of clothing was introduced, according to Christians. They saw it as a protection to cover up their bodies from getting exposed.
Some parts of the world consider clothing to be an important ornamental factor. Some, on the other hand, used clothing as basic protection. Let us dive a little deep and specific into this concept of clothing.
Humans started to shift their focus toward clothing 500,000 years ago, which was an ancient time to live. The whole concept of clothing, as said before, has seen a lot of improvements and changes. It has seen progressions differing from region to region and culture to culture. The people of the Middle East were the first to extract fabric from plants and animals from the late stone age. This was where mankind started to infuse a little fashion into this concept, making it more interesting.
Now, let us look at the different clothing styles witnessed by mankind throughout its history.
2) Different Clothing Styles
There are a lot of clothing styles that were enjoyed and disposed of by mankind. This usage and disposal of clothing styles happen due to a single factor called ‘trend.’
A trend is something that has a mass following, which moves or progresses in a forward direction. The styles of Clothing worn by humans first are not being worn nowadays due to it being a subject currently out of trend. We can simply say that trend is just a taste of a following who move together. The Clothing styles which get forgotten must have lost their capacity to stay in trend. The trend is the only factor that has paved the way for the creation of a lot of clothing styles.
Thus, let us look at the different clothing styles seen by mankind throughout its history.
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2.1) The Vintage Fashion Style
The Vintage Fashion Style was a very trendy style during the early 1900s. The clothing style, which lasted till the early years of 1930, is still considered the Vintage Style by some fashion enthusiasts.
The word ‘vintage‘ itself defines the clothing style. The style is old, but not too old. Too old will fall into a very different category called Antique, which will not suit the tastes of the current age.
The Vintage Fashion Style includes Birkin Bags, Gold Chains, Puffed Sleeves, Long Beads, T-strapped shoes, and so on. Most of these fashion pieces were put into people’s minds through one factor called Cinema. It kind of works even to this date. Most Hollywood movies and music concerts play a major role in fashion trends worldwide, as popular celebrities are the core elements of creating trends.
Vintage Fashion roams around even in the period of the current generation. Such fashion styles include Denim, Capris, High boots, and Skirts. These fashion styles are expected to survive even longer due to their strong fan bases in the current period. According to the current generation, it was just a fashion style that had a mass following throughout the important years of the past century. But it was a whole culture that made people join as communities with the old generations.
2.2) The Artsy Fashion Style
The Artsy fashion style is one of the flashiest styles on the list. This fashion style was ahead of its time as the wearers spit out a fashion statement to their viewers.
The Artsy fashion style shows its wearer pretty and unique at the same time in a room full of an averagely dressed crowd. This idea of styling proves to be unconventional. Most of the fashion styles in this category include brightly colored and frilled outfits. Interesting prints may also be available with this particular fashion style.
This is also the kind of clothing style that projects one’s creativity. It can either be the wearer’s creativity or the designer’s creativity. Most of the outfits present under this category are made with innovation and, at times, are purely handcrafted to the maximum extent. Due to this, most of the outfits under this fashion style have always proved to be a premium version, which requires a very high price to be owned.
This fashion style can mostly be worn by one who is fond of experimenting with their looks publicly. People who are always in need and thirst to experiment with their fashion sense by wearing different and unique clothes can opt for this style of clothing.
Some Artsy styles include Leggings, Asymmetrical Tunics, Creative Jewelry, and so on.
2.3) The Casual Fashion Style
One of the most famous Fashion styles adopted and followed by people even now is the Casual Fashion Style. This particular style wins the hearts of a lot of people who are looking for a very eased-up lifestyle. They just don’t want to dress complicatedly to be the most fashionable person in the room.
The Casual Style of dressing is one of the most welcomed styles in the past century. This is because the Casual Fashion style eases the whole experience of clothing to the next level. All the wears which fall under this casual clothing category are the easiest to wear, and also, it is considered a style that people can wear regularly.
Both the dressing styles explained before were either forgotten or rarely used. But this particular style never goes out of trend. Instead, it just evolved with the people. This style traveled along the never-stopping dynamic trends, and the clothes were just altered in a way that suited every generation.
The wearers of casual clothes are projected as people who have mental peace and are calm and composed as they don’t focus on attracting the crowd. Instead, they just project that laid-off attitude and focus on completing their desires.
What makes Casual Wear so amazing is that this particular fashion style can be used both professionally and in an average casual manner. Casual wear can be styled in such a way that it can simply be worn for business meetings and workplaces. It is also the most flexible kind available in this list of dressing styles. One should only match up the color combinations to look good. Other than that, every garment under the casual style will match your fashion expectations.
You also tend to feel calm and relaxed but, at the same time, give out a good posture and vibration to the people around you with your elegance when you are in casual attire. So, casual wear promotes your style to the viewers as well and comforts your dressing mood for each day.
Some popular casual wear includes mini skirts, Denim shorts, Jeans, T-shirts, and so on.
2.4) The Grunge Style Clothing
The Grunge style has a very interesting story regarding its origination. The whole clothing style was formed due to the most influential music era of the 1980s.
Grunge music was a very popular form of music that had a huge following. It emerged in Seattle, the famous city in the state of Washington. It primarily took place in the center of the years of Eighties, and it was once regarded for its rage-inducing lyrics and stripped-off sound.
The grunge fashion trend used to be originally stimulated with the aid of the tuning scene of grunge, looking its foundation in messy, cozy, and flannel pieces. One of the important traits of this fashion style is that it has every single element which is needed by a fashion lover. You can create a fashion statement that might turn out to be very impactful through the help of the grunge fashion style.
This fashion style was once appreciably influenced by heavy metallic and punk rock. It then ultimately managed to discover its very own identification with the aid of growing its fashion and look. It is all because of the efforts made by fashion lovers worldwide to revive this style that has recently grown in terms of reputation.
Some of the well-known grunge patterns encompass leather jackets, flannel shirts, crop tops, and ripped denim which is used in the modern age. The metal jackets, slogan tees, fight boots, fishnet stockings, mother jeans, sweaters, and beanies also fall under the grunge fashion style. Baggy-looking clothing and ripped and torn garments are the traits of this style.
2.5) The Chic Style
One of the most trending styles of the current age is The Chic Style. It mostly involves a lot of clothing styles that show the magnificence of the wearer.
This style tends to give a neat variety of fashion as it is elegant and classy without the shiny colors we saw in the Artsy Fashion Style. This makes it stands out from the other different clothing styles.
The style usually entails the natural colors of elegance, blacks, and whites. You may additionally see some upgrades now and then. However, it does not include any loud and refined colors during the alterations.
The Chic Style supplies us with a concept of the fashion of a unique trend or the patterns in which a house is decorated. Some fashion enthusiasts claim that the phrase is used more than a few times to the limit that it simply tells out loud that something looks pretty good to the viewing eye. It may additionally appear equivocal and might be one of the phrases we generally use except entirely understand the proper meanings that lie at the back of it.
We can say that Chic style simply means a look that is classy, something which is attained by combining clothing of various but not-so-vibrant colors with a minimalist style. The followers of the chic style will mostly wear clothing that is only of a classic nature. Such colors include white, blue, and other not-so-bright colors like grey and blue are used by Chic styling experts looking to project their classic style with a pinch of elegance.
But the real twist here is that all the Chic Style outfits include a very powerful accessory list. In other cases, the outfit was given significance. But here, the accessories used by the wearer are given equal importance to that of the outfit worn by the wearer. Accessories such as watches, purses, bracelets, and others are analyzed to a core extent just to see if they match the whole outfit.
Exposing parts of your skin, like your neck and forearms and the calf region, might add a little bit of taste to the entire Chic style, especially during festivals or celebrations.
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2.6) The Bohemian Style
The Bohemian style is not just one of the other different clothing styles. It projects an entire culture.
Hippies are the most interesting community one could meet in their entire life. The Bohemian Style was made known to this world by the Hippies during the early ages of the 1960s.
This fashion is mainly concerned with females having lengthy hair and vibrant outfits that have been made out of frilled and free-flowing fabric that covers daring patterns and exclusive prints alongside the unusual kind of pants. The spectacular model of this fashion is also known as the Boho Elegant Fashion.
The Bohemian style shows up a lot of characters along with its wearer. It projects a certain sense of vibration, which can either be nurturing as well as dulling. This can be compared closely to the Artsy style we discussed earlier.
The Artsy has that altered modern look. While on the other hand, this Bohemian style has a raw nature. It has that certain essence that took a long since its origin. It was made popular by the Hippies, who had their very own methods and philosophies of living their lives. They wanted to believe that their actions depended only on how they felt and how others’ feelings influenced them. They believe in the power of influencing people and their lives with one’s vibrations, or Aura as we say it. Thus, they mainly focused on wearing outfits that looked unique and always had a sense of positivity. It induces good vibration in the viewers who see it.
Moreover, most of the outfit styles mentioned above use garments in their clothing that are readymade or made for a commercialized purpose. But the Bohemian style is made purely from the usable contents of nature. In addition to this, most of these outfits spit out their connection with mother nature.
The clothes used in this Bohemian style are generally bright and soothing. They have attractive borders and designs. It is decently paired up with footwear that doesn’t show much elegance. Accessories like feather chains, beads, and bracelets are used to give that extra feel to the outfit.
2.7) The Attractive/ Sexy Fashion Style
This is that particular style that attracts tons and tons of people. You see it everywhere. Beautiful men and women show off their perfectly toned bodies with the best of clothing to make their whole attire look quite splendid. Their outfit of theirs causes us to become their admirers in the end.
The Sexy fashion style is a clothing style that primarily focuses on showing off skin with a proportionate amount of clothing. The motive of this style is to infuse fashion with a little infusion of glamour. Raising the temperatures of the ones who are looking must be the prime motive of the wearer here.
This style never fails to turn the heads of the viewers around. Flaunting your best portions despite the flaws you have is the most interesting element here. Women who just feel like flaunting their best selves are mostly welcome to try this fashion style out. Famous style icons gained popularity due to this particular style.
The Sexy Style can also be combined with other subliminal styles such as the Elegant Style, the Edgy Style, the Feminine Style, the Girly Style, the Casual Chic Style, or even the Romantic Style by adding up certain accessories and additions to their clothing. Sex appeal is never a motive here. It is just showing your best, self-cared skin to the public within a limit.
Usually, the Sexy fashion style includes tight-fitting clothes to show the wearer’s well-toned body shape. It might also add up to the athletic nature of the wearer.
Girls who use this fashion style mostly prefer mini-skirts, high heels, crop tops, and low tops. This gives them a casual feel, as well as makes them feel very bold and flaunting as well. Most celebrities and social media influencers are the ones who use this dressing style to gain popularity and a huge following. Toning your muscles up and getting that tummy fit might give you additional brownie points when you follow this particular clothing style.
These were the most popular clothing styles available in the current world. The whole list goes down like a progression. It started from an early age and led us to the current generation period. However, the clothing styles which are available in the current age cannot be simply counted with fingers. There is a huge list of clothing styles with separate user groups as well.
So even though there are a lot of clothing styles apart from these, we need to end it here because the list will not end if we start looking into them! Consider checking out the related content, “7 Great Ways How Fashion evolved over years,” by Icytales.
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