GingerFarmingFashionista: When we say vintage fashion, we mean 3,000 old years vintage

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

When we say vintage fashion, we mean 3,000 old years vintage

The pants below were found in west China and date back to 1122-926 BC. In Archaeology, dating objects, especially when this old, can be tricky. A ballpark figure with in a couple hundred years is good. This short blog relates fashion reasons of why we adopted the trousers: to protect our legs and nether regions as we rode horses. Once we as humans invented the bridle we could harness horses and their usefulness in many new ways. Thus, of course, a fashion development was in order to celebrate. The blog below explains more. Reading it made me excited for my Near-east Archaeology class I have scheduled for the Fall when I get back to the States from Germany!

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/30759

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This is a simply a spot to collect and preserve my fashion ideas, creations and likes. History, Anthropology and art history are some of the things I study in school, have professional interest in and find inspiration. Thus, much of the historical or cultural facts I share around the context of clothing are things I have had the pleasure to learn through my time as a student, reading, meeting new people and traveling.

Fashion is art and a form of expression. Clothes have the ability to speak volumes about one’s identity, nationality, culture, religious beliefs, personal likes and dislikes, ideals and time period in which they live or lived in. In the words of Neil Macgregor the director of the British Museum: "Looking at clothes, is a key part in any serious study of history...and fashion is a great way to grasp how a society thinks about itself" In this way, clothes state as much of what we think in silence; as we say we think aloud. In 5 years or 500 a simple a or description of a garment can inform the viewer of this historical information. And all without words.

Macgregor, Neil. "Paracas Textiles." A History of the World in 100 Objects. By BBC Radio 4. British Museum, 2013. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.