Clothing, Costume, and Dress PDF

Clothing, costume, and dress indicate what people wear. It is related to apparel, attire, garments, garb, outfits, and ensemble. Reasons why Clothing exist: 1. To decorate and cover the body 2. Protection against temperature and climate 3. Modesty 4. Display Functions of Cloth...

Clothing, costume, and dress indicate what people wear. It is related to apparel, attire, garments, garb, outfits, and ensemble. Reasons why Clothing exist: 1. To decorate and cover the body 2. Protection against temperature and climate 3. Modesty 4. Display Functions of Clothing 1. Provides basic information about age, gender, marital status, occupation, religious affiliation, and ethnic background for every day, special occasions and events, or participation in cinema, television, live theater, burlesque, circus, or dance production. 2. Indicate personality characteristics and aesthetic preferences. Differences in Clothing Terminologies Clothing and Costume Clothing as a noun refers to articles garments of dress that cover the body. As verb refers to the act of putting on garments. Costume as a noun describes garments of many types, particularly when worn as an ensemble. As a verb refers to designing an ensemble for an individual to wear. Frequently costume refers to the clothing items, accessories, and makeup for actors, dancers, and people dressing up for special events such as Halloween, Masquerade balls, Carnival, and Mardi Gras. The term costume comes from an Italian word inherited via French, which means fashion or custom. Distinction between clothing and costume CLOTHING It refers to specific garments. Items of clothing are components utilized in both costume and dress and designate a specific garments and other apparel items such as footwear, headwear, and accessories. COSTUME a. The distinctive style of dress of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality and evening costume. b. Used to describe a typical appropriate clothing for certain activities such as riding costume, swimming costume, dance costume, and evening costume.  c. Refers to unusual or out-of-date clothing and to attire intended to evoke a change in identity such as theatrical, Halloween, and mascot costumes. To the ensemble that allows individuals to hide or temporarily canceling an individual’s everyday identity. Appropriate costume and acceptable costume are subject to changes in fashion and local cultural norms. It also refers to ensembles for clothing worn by members of an ethnic group for special occasions that serves as an affirmation of the group’s traditions and solidarity. DRESS Dress as a noun is used in several ways to indicate woman’s one-piece garment to indicate a category of garments such as “holiday dress” or “military dress”, or as a general reference to an individual’s overall appearance pr various identities. As a verb dress indicate the process of using various items to cover, adorn, and modify the body. The act of dress involves the five senses and encompasses more than wearing clothes. Getting dress includes arranging hair, applying scent, lotion and cosmetics, as well as putting on clothing of various textures and colors and jewelry such as necklaces, earrings, and dangling bracelets. It originally communicates aspects of a person’s identity. In the United States, the term “costume history” indicates the chronological study of dress. In United Kingdom, the term “dress history” is most frequently used. Requirements for Costume and Dress COSTUME 1. Costumes must be carefully planned to represent and highlight various roles to be played; principal characters are set apart and highlighted by costume from the rest of the cast or dance troupe. 2. Costumes for the theater, dance, Halloween, and Mardi Gras have special requirements in fit, color, and effect. 3. Garments must allow the performer’s body to move easily and be well made, thus sturdy fabrics and specific construction considerations like seam reinforcement is required. 4. Costumes are often viewed from afar; thus, colors or other aspects of the design may be exaggerated for effect. Some colors may be more bold or brilliant than choices for everyday dress. Others may be drab. Such choices depend on interpretation of the costume designer in planning the garb for each performer’s individual role and for the interaction among the performers. DRESSES It establishes individual identity within a cultural context, emphasizing common social characteristics: age, gender, marital status, and occupation. Much information about identity is communicated through sensory cues provided by dress without the observer asking questions.