What is a dress?

Dress refers to clothes worn on solemn occasions or ceremonies, such as evening dresses or clothes worn according to regulations when holding important ceremonies. Dress is mainly skirt, which refers to the solemn and formal clothes worn by participants on some important occasions.

There are many kinds of clothes. Traditional western clothing includes morning coat, small dress (evening dress or casual dress) and big dress (tuxedo). Evening dress is not included in western traditional clothing.

The only men's clothing for the ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games is the flag-raiser's clothing: the flag-raiser's clothing, which echoes the blue-and-white porcelain dress at a distance, reflects the traditional culture of China without losing masculinity, and will appear in all Olympic and Paralympic venues. All Olympic costumes and flag-raiser uniforms are embroidered with the words "Beijing 2008".

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The appearance of dresses is related to various sacrificial ceremonies, celebrations and other activities in early human life. It can be inferred that the original purpose of dress formation is to respect the solemn ceremony. There are many factors that affect the development of formal attire. In different times, different nationalities and different geographical environments, due to the limitations and changes of historical, cultural and economic conditions, people's demand for dresses will be different.

Specific to clothing styles, fabric materials, color patterns and matching methods will be completely different; At the same time, the dress also varies according to identity, class, occupation, age, gender, etiquette and time.

Judging from the style and modeling of dresses, dresses are mainly skirt structures, so the origin of dresses can be traced back to the Renaissance in Europe. At that time, the most distinctive feature of women's wear was the widely popular hoop skirt. It is said that Margaret, the wife of Henry IV of France, wanted to hide her not-so-plump buttocks with an inflatable ring skirt.

Therefore, the Spanish tapered hoop skirt (that is, the top is small and the bottom is big) is changed to add a wheel hoop frame at the waist, so that the hip circumference is full and the waist is slimmer. At the same time, in order to make the waist slimmer, various tights also appeared one after another.

Rococo costumes were originally worn by court ladies. On the basis of rococo's exquisite and distinctive features, it shows the exquisite and beautiful style of ceremony and moonlight immersion through oriental landscape patterns, auspicious words and other elements.

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