The Clothing Portal
Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural products found in the environment, put together. The wearing of clothing is mostly restricted to human beings and is a feature of all human societies. The amount and type of clothing worn depends on gender, body type, social factors, and geographic considerations. Garments cover the body, footwear covers the feet, gloves cover the hands, while hats and headgear cover the head. Eyewear and jewelry are not generally considered items of clothing, but play an important role in fashion and clothing as costume.
Clothing has significant social factors as well. Wearing clothes is a variable social norm. It may connote modesty. Being deprived of clothing in front of others may be embarrassing. In many parts of the world, not wearing clothes in public so that genitals, breasts, or buttocks are visible could be considered indecent exposure. Pubic area or genital coverage is the most frequently encountered minimum found cross-culturally and regardless of climate, implying social convention as the basis of customs. Clothing also may be used to communicate social status, wealth, group identity, and individualism. (Full article...)
Textile is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of materials, including fibers, yarns, and fabrics, in addition to filaments, threads, etc. Consumer textiles and technical textiles are the two principal sectors of the textile industry. Geotextiles, industrial textiles, medical textiles, and many other areas are examples of technical textiles, whereas clothing and furnishings are examples of consumer textiles. Each component of a textile product, including fiber, yarn, fabric, processing, and finishing, affects the final product. Components may vary among various textile products as they are selected based on fitness for purpose. (Full article...)
Textile arts are arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects. (Full article...)
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- Reconstruction of a Saxon sprang hairnet
- Lady Jane Allgood displays her embroidery of an anemone and tulips worked in long-and-short stitch, part of a set of 18th century chair covers and screens which survive at Nunwick Hall, although now much faded.
- Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen, Andersen's first illustrator
- Denim fabric dyed with indigo
- Warp and weft in plain weaving
- Roller-printed cotton cushion cover panel, 1904, Silver Studio V&A Museum no. CIRC.675–1966
- Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk, a Chinese silk painting by Emperor Huizong of Song, early 12th century.
- Yucatecas dressed with "terno" of huipil, traditional costume of Yucatán, with which the Jarana yucateca is danced.
- Ainu ceremonial dress on display under glass in the British Museum.
- David, between personifications of Wisdom and Prophecy, is depicted in a chlamys of patterned Byzantine silk. Paris Psalter, 10th century.
- Utility pole warmer on New York City street corner.
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- ... that according to Naraporn Chan-o-cha, the wife of the current prime minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha, she is responsible for his clothes, make-up, and haircut?
- ... that Jacqueline Kennedy did not want to make her clothes the focus of her 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan, but still wore 22 different outfits in the first nine days?
- ... that New York City Subway riders could get their clothes dry cleaned at the Church Avenue station?
- ... that ill-equipped Romanian soldiers quelling the Ukrainian-led Khotin Uprising were told to wear the winter clothes of suspects whom they executed?
- ... that German paracyclist Bernd Jeffré may have lost his 2010 Berlin Marathon race because he ignored his wife and did not wear enough clothes?
- ... that Jen Wang wrote The Prince and the Dressmaker in part because she wanted to tell the story of a superhero who could create clothes that transformed those who wore them?
More Did you know
- ... that makers of Chantilly lace (pictured) were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
- ... that Blonde lace, while made with the same stitches as Chantilly lace, was made out of two different thicknesses of thread to create greater contrast between the pattern and the ground?
- ... that Antwerp lace is also known as "Pot Lace" because of its repeated flower pot motifs?
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Henry VIII of England, flanked by his third wife Jane Seymour and their son, the future Edward VI, is seated on a throne beneath a tapestry baldachin or cloth of state woven with Henry's monogram and coat of arms.
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- Textile machinery at the Cambrian Factory, Llanwrtyd, Wales in the 1940s. (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, was a leader of fashion. Her choices, such as this 1783 white muslin dress called a chemise a la Reine, were highly influential and widely worn. (from Fashion)
- A Mexican sports reporter wearing little black dress and knee-high boots (from Fashion)
- Gross sales of goods vs IP laws (USA 2007) (from Fashion)
- Model in a designer gown reflecting the contemporary fashion trend at an Haute couture fashion show, Paris, 2011 (from Fashion)
- Ladies making silk, early 12th-century painting by Emperor Huizong of Song (a remake of an 8th-century original by artist Zhang Xuan), illustrates silk fabric manufacture in China. (from History of clothing and textiles)
- 14th-century Italian silk damasks (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Ivanka Trump (right) along with Japanese PM Shinzō Abe wearing Western-style business suits, 2017 (from Fashion)
- Reconstructed Roman women's fashions from Florence (from Fashion)
- Estonian national clothes are a fine example of change in clothing after the industrial revolution. They changed a lot during 18th and 19th of century with the addition of new types of colors (like aniline dyes), placement of colors (like lengthwise stripes) and with the addition of new elements (like waistcoats). By the end of the 19th century they went out of use in most of the country (except more remote places as in Kihnu island) and it was only in mid 20th century when they once again gained popularity and now as a formal clothing. Members of University of Tartu Folk Art Ensemble wearing clothes specific to Kihnu island, Tori Parish (women in red skirts) and Tõstamaa area (men in brown clothing). (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Watercolor Illustrations of different styles of Sari & clothing worn by women in South Asia by M. V. Dhurandhar, 1928. (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Celebrities such as Britney Spears have popularised the concept of wearing underwear as outerwear. (from Fashion)
- Slashing at its height: Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, c. 1514. (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Reconstructed Roman women's fashion from Florence, Taipei 2013 (from Fashion)
- A French reinterpretation of Spanish fashion, with elaborate reticella ruff, 1609 (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Latin dancers in their costumes. The woman is wearing backless dress with deep slits on its lower portion, while the man is wearing a shirt with top buttons open. (from Fashion)
- A see-through top worn along with pasties by a model at a fashion show in USA, 2017. Such fashion trends get popularised through media. (from Fashion)
- Red carpet fashion: Italian actors Gabriel Garko and Laura Torrisi wearing designer formal wear at Venice Film Festival, 2009 (from Fashion)
- Albrecht Dürer's drawing contrasts a well-turned out bourgeoise from Nuremberg (left) with her counterpart from Venice. The Venetian lady's high chopines make her look taller. (from Fashion)
- Bold floral patterned silks, 15th century. (from History of clothing and textiles)
- A woman in Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century. (from History of clothing and textiles)
- The Boxer Codex, showing the attire of a Classical period Filipino, made of silk and cotton. (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Edgar I of England in short tunic, hose, and cloak, 966 (from History of clothing and textiles)
- Cover of Marcus Clarks' spring and summer catalogue 1926–27 (from Fashion)
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