THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK CLOTHING IN THE CURRENT DESIGN

The Alexandrian period in ancient Greece. 

It is a historical era where Greek polis lived an economic boom. Similarly it provided a great cultural development. Thus, cultural events abruptly developed into their heyday. It was in this period where the great revelutions of classical art emerged: architecture, sculpture, literature and philosophy.

Greek thought in classical times:

Greek thought underwent radical change . It went from an idea of rigidity. It applies to everything that relates to the life and cultural events, a new ideology of the movement. They present it in harmony: the sculptures began to have more relaxed attitudes and ceramics. Sculptures became more organic forms. They emerge typical dishes guards. This imitates the ways of the sea, and women perfectly with new types. His garments, fabrics and draping showed renewed resources.

Greek civilization of the classical period:

It had a remarkable Mesopotamian and Egyptian influence. We can see essential characteristics obtained from Crete in this clothing. They  were not able to spread to remote territories. The waves of invasion or hostile civilizations is the main reason. This led the Greeks to specialize in the production in their region. They devote to the manufacture of textiles. They use techniques from Egypt and Mesopotamia and over time came to form a true textile industry.

This favored the economy, resulting in trade with other civilizations.

Materials Used:

Thanks known Greek historian Herótodo (484-425 BC) .This civilization developed sophisticated techniques to generate various textiles. Similarly they made their costumes resolved issues. Mainly used woolens, linen, pure cotton and leather. First, they used woolens, later appeared flax, and finally were pure silk, and linen and silk blends. Linen and cotton were pure, steamy, thin and light fabrics. Pleats and folds allowed generate typical resources of Greek clothing.

Other materials used to make their garments were the gold wires. these wires were thin enough to be worked with embroidery needles. This brought them add value to their costumes and gave them status. Probably the person those who were in power uses it.

Color:

With regard to color, we can say that classical garments were mostly white or clear. It was the Greek painter Polignoto (475- 447 BC) who incorporated dyes. Bright colors and subtle floral prints were made first to female costumes, sculptures and paintings. The Greek women takes them and adapt to their realities.

The purple was reserved for kings and emperors. Because it was a symbol of greatness, power and opulence. The black was the color of mourning for men. Note that the classical sculptures known in white for having been years in the weather, which affected their status and wore his color. For this reason, many historians inferred that the suits were white. However they use natural dyes to contribute color to them is known.

Features of clothing:

The main feature of the clothing of the classical period was the use of drapes. This acquires further refinement over time. These naturally fell on the body and adapted to body morphology So the body can not differentiate fabric, corresponding to artistic ideal of the moment. In the social imaginary, is the misconception simplicity in Greek costumes. But they  made ​it in detailed and refined form and it requires a lot of work.

The most widely used resource in all these types, were the folds and drapes. They dip the clothes obtained in a bath of starch, and then bend them generating pursed carefully before placing them in the sun to dry. You could say that were the forerunners of modern pleats.

On the other hand, these comprise the most prominent feature in the imaginary current collective about Greek clothing. 

Presence of Greek influence in fashion design Contemporary Classical Greek culture had a great influence on the history of fashion contemporary. Long list of designers is there at World. The designers  takes the Greek clothing as inspiration for develop their design processes. These are based on the choice of a basic concept. They investigate and analyze the concept. After that they decide which are the issues that are most interesting to them to dump into a collection.

This just thus, the modular lengths that garments are made are resolved, what and how typologies are constructed patterns, resources and details, pallets colors, shapes enclosing and access to them and textiles and materials used.