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Why do we dress the way we do?

Why do we dress the way we do?. Haute Couture. Refers to high fashion, one of a kind designs. Royalty determined style. Dictated and determined fashion Sumptuary laws governed what peasants and merchants could wear. Where do ideas for dress come from?. Everywhere Parties High fashion

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Why do we dress the way we do?

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  1. Why do we dress the way we do?

  2. Haute Couture Refers to high fashion, one of a kind designs.

  3. Royalty determined style • Dictated and determined fashion • Sumptuary laws governed what peasants and merchants could wear.

  4. Where do ideas for dress come from? • Everywhere • Parties • High fashion • Chance • Anticipation and manipulation • Conformity vs. Nonconformity

  5. How does fashion (which is the generic word for the business of clothing) anticipate as well as manipulate the trends?

  6. READY TO WEAR = $$= HAS TO SELL

  7. Theories regarding the Reasons for dressing a particular way • Shifting of erogenous zones

  8. Shifting of erogenous zones • Attract the male attention • Female-Revealing • Male-Change the shape of the silhouette

  9. To assert wealth • Opulence to make you look richer than others • Self indulgent dressing to show wealth

  10. To identify Gender • Sometimes reversed for effect. • Message: • Attract • Gain respect • Tell personality • To repel

  11. How does the fun of playing with clothes affect fashion? • Fun to play with one’s appearance

  12. What does the language of clothing say about us? • Evokes response • Demands attention • Comfort • Convenience • Utility

  13. Conspicuous Consumption • Shows Wealth

  14. Why is rarity important? • It sets you apart.

  15. John Malloy’s Dressed for Success • Dress for power • Dress for socio-economic message

  16. How does clothing identify us with certain groups? • Color = purple • Wealth rather than birth • Image makers

  17. Costumes

  18. Costuming • Costuming is one of the integral parts of the play production that suffers the most. • The costume is not merely a means of characterizing a role as attractively as possible. • Color and silhouette is a vital part of the total stage design.

  19. Color • Harmony with other colors • Appropriate to historical period • Can destroy the atmosphere

  20. Effective Costuming • Expresses the personality of the character

  21. Effective Costuming • Should reveal social status, tastes, idiosyncrasies

  22. Effective Costuming • Should aid audience’s understanding of the actor’s relationship to the play itself

  23. Color Coding • Matching characters by color or pattern. Example: Romeo and Juliet

  24. Steps to Costume Design • Study the play • Budget • Obtain actors’ measurements • Collect fabric samples (under lights) • Costume Parade • Deal with problems

  25. Steps to Costume Design • Always consider problems • Work with rehearsal clothes and shoes • Keep actions of the actor in mind Example: dancing or fighting

  26. Appropriateness – Costume Silhouette • Each historic period has its own distinctive line and form in dress

  27. Appropriateness – Costume Silhouette • Material and cut must be appropriate to the social background and period of the play.

  28. Color, Line, and Material • Comedies, farces, children’s plays, and fantasies are normally made of light material and are bright or pastel in color and frothy in design

  29. Color, Line, and Material • Restoration Comedy – satins, laces, and brocades

  30. High Comedy • Taste and social grace, fashionable

  31. Symbolic and Allegorical • Require thought and meaning

  32. Realistic Plays • Suitable for the character

  33. Costumes and Color • Color interprets inner meaning which evokes an audience response

  34. Obtaining the Costumes • Work Sheets • Costume Charts

  35. Costumes Charts • Design • Measurements

  36. Rented • Expensive • Fit • Substitution • Available for a short time • Quality • Cleaning • Returning

  37. Borrowing • Mismatch • Fit

  38. Making Costumes • Building = making costumes • Velcro = stronger than zippers and buttons, but must not be seen • Cost • Time

  39. Care of Costumes • Wardrobe Manager or Costume Master/Mistress • Cleaning and Repair • Dressing Areas • Quick Changes

  40. The Actor and the Costume • Actor must wear costume properly • Actor must be disciplined and responsible

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