The emergence of fashion

The fashion emerged in the mid-fifteenth century at the beginning of the European Renaissance. The word means custom and fashion comes from the Latin modus. The variation feature of the garments appeared to differentiate what was equal, it used a style of clothing from childhood to death.
From the Middle Ages, the clothes were different following a pattern that increased according to social class, there were even laws that restricted fabrics and colors only to nobles.
The bourgeoisie was not noble, but it was rich, now imitate the noble style of clothes starting a process that tailors to the great work from then on, were required to produce different styles to differentiate the nobles of the bourgeois.
With the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century, the cost of the tissues decreased considerably in 1850 with the invention of sewing machines cost tissue fell further.
From then until the humblest could buy better clothes.
Even after the ease of clothing, women were still deprived of modernity continuing to use tailored clothing. From this difficulty arose couture which produced different styles by designers who invented trends.
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