The scottish kilt Fashion first came from animal furs, leaves, skins, whatever would cover up and protect the body, often draped and tied more than 100,000 years ago from Neolithic cultures, and from that came textiles from spinning and sewing and weaving to make fabrics for things like cute casual white dresses. However, overall throughout history, fashionable clothing was generally made for:
• Farmers, outdoor workers who wore special clothing for protection from weather, cold, rain, snow
• Different styles to attract and bond with others to create chemistry
• Tradition and identification in society such as uniforms, white color dresses for brides or black robes for judges or military outfits
• But most of all communication is key, wearing the proper clothing to express emotions, and for that reason, clothing and fashions are always changing, things that change are alive and things that don't are, well, just dead.
• Fashion is a popularity contest for social power and survival
All fashions were hand-made, hand-sewn, seamstresses and tailors became a common trade and the difference between fashionable and just casual such as an off the shoulders dress became easy to distinguish and more and more people learned to express themselves, that is until sewing machines were invented and the clothing industry exploded.
Fashion in Egyptian times was a serious matter because of their religious beliefs about animals as gods with powers so they used white linen usually, besides it was a cooler material during a warmer climate and better for the health of most Egyptians, rather than wool coming from animals which were not allowed in the religious temples. Because of its value, children usually did not wear clothing until reaching puberty, and depending on the style of the time women wore straps covering one or both breasts or leaving both breasts exposed with tight dresses or robes while men wore only short skirts or loincloths but usually no shirts because of the climate, necessity for working conditions, stature in culture, and style. Fashion varied because of a person's occupation and the linen was usually not dyed, it was a simple life not evolving until the New Kingdom era when scottish kilt fashion became more stylish and complex. However, most common and poor people went barefoot and wore very little clothing while the wealthy Egyptians wore sandals with a full-length robe, farmers usually only wore loincloths.
In Roman times the first material to be spun was wool because it was used more than anything else particularly from the sheep of Tarentum which were crossbred frequently. After all, the Romans continually tried to make a higher quality of cloth. After the farmer's harvest time a cloth spun from a combination of hemp and linen which was similar to wool would be skinned, dried, immersed in water, and then pressed with a mallet and smoothed out before these tough durable materials were woven into the glamorous dresses and other fashions of the time.
From the high cost of imported clothing, high-quality white color dresses were woven from nettle because silk was rare and expensive from India and China, though cotton was cheaper and more frequently used for its versatility. Wild silk came from short lengths and was spun after the cocoons were gathered in the wild after the insects had eaten their way out of captivity and made rare beautiful cloth known as sea silk from a golden sheen into popular knitted sea silk gloves in Italy because the long silky filaments came from "Pinna Nobilis", a large Mediterranean seashell. However, sometimes the wool contained about 50% fatty impurities, silk, hemp, and the flax was 25% impure, cotton had only 6% impurities being the purer of all the fibers which had to be prepared for manufacturing in different ways.
For dyeing, Romans used a hand spinner to turn their material into different colors. A common tint such as indigo was used for blue or yellow, madder(a dicotyledon angiosperm) was used for red and was cheaper than most others though black was the preferred color. Wealthy women primarily used "haustellum brandaris" for a purple-red color which was also the color of the emperor of Rome and was imported from Tyre, Lebanon. Saffron was used for "vestal virgins" or married women which were expensive and yellow.
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