Classic


Fashion-trends are cyclic in nature, the history of women'sfashion has witnessed many trends coming in and fading away eventually. Butthere are some trends which not only survived beyond a certain time frame butreinvented themselves thereby becoming immortal.


These classics are not mere designs but visions drafted withutmost purity and clarity in terms of design processes.


Little black dresses


The little black dress is a semi-formal evening wear outfitwith simple cuts and short length originally made popular in the 1920s byveteran designer called Coco-Chanel.


Projected by Chanel to be a long-lasting, versatile,affordable, and accessible to the widest market possible and in a neutralcolor.


Through this paper we would be discussing the powerof this sensuous outfit after all it doesnt happens everyday in the fashionworld where a designs continued ubiquity is such that many refer to it by theabbreviation LBD.


History


Wearing the color black andmourning used to be occasions going hand in hand, black a neutral among othercolors was always offered a step treatment, a subject of detest, somethingwhich everyone would like to avoid coming across.


With painters painting blackas evil, authors writing about the negativity associated with, it was nothingmore then a symbol of fatality and casualty. For example the painting calledPortrait of Madame X, by John Singer Sargent.


First the world war-1 andnext the deadly Spanish flu knocking the doors, many lifes were lost inEurope, as a result women appearing in black in public became a common site. Toadd to that since during the Victorian and the Edwardian ages, a widow wasexpected to wear several stages of mourning dress for at least two years.


Deep or full mourning wouldrequire them to conceal themselves in complete black clothing with nodecoration being encouraged at all for the first year. Even the fabric chosenused to be coarser and of most inferior quality possible. During the next yearhowever they could afford wearing silk in black.



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