In the distant past, such a familiar garment for all of us as a skirt, served as a reliable protection against cold and wind, not only to women, but also to men. The history of the appearance of the first skirt remains a mystery, but already in the V-IV millennium BC this element of the wardrobe was widely distributed. At first our ancestors did not share skirts for women and men. Significance had not only sex, but also age, social status. Not surprisingly, everyone dressed almost identically. And only in the Middle Ages, the history of the appearance of the skirt, as the subject of a women's wardrobe, began its countdown.
Skirts of the Middle Ages
The history of the origin of the classic women's skirt began in Spain at the end of the XVI century. At that time tunics were considered the most common element of the everyday attire, and ladies wore dresses for visiting ceremonial parties. It is not known exactly who came up with the idea of dividing the whole outfit into a corset and a skirt, but it got very widespread. The skirt allowed a woman not only to create fashionable images, changing her shirt or corset, but also to save on fabrics that cost a lot in the Middle Ages.
Strangely enough, but the history of creating a woman's skirt is associated with ... horses! Horse hair served as a filler between several layers of fabric, making the skirt very lush and bulky. Looked like these outfits luxuriously, but considerable weight of horse hair did not allow women to move freely in a skirt.
Heavy skirts after a few decades were replaced by skeleton models. Connected in a pyramid-like design hoops of different diameters, women were fixed at the waist, and covered them with beautiful fabrics. Such a skirt was fastened directly to the corset, so women could not dress without assistance.
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Italians and French women decided to get rid of the awkward heavy frames, replacing them with loincloth pillows stuffed with ordinary cotton wool. But the history of the fashion of the skirt says that such an option did not last long. Already in the XVII century there were models with a straight silhouette, decorated with drapery or three-dimensional folds. The layering became so large that a skirt of fifteen layers was considered quite common.
A few decades later, skirts-bells entered fashion. At first the volume was created with the help of the same skeletons, but then they were replaced by crinoline lifters. An interesting fact: the strictness and elegance, which in the IX century was the standard of women's fashion, excluded the wearing of skirts of any color, other than white. The woman in the colored skirt was automatically ranked among the harlots. But the emphasis on the buttocks was welcomed, so the skirts were worn with bustles - special volumetric rollers.
Modern skirts for women
The tightened "lame" skirts of the 1920s, erected in a trend by Cecilia Sorel, short models created by Mary Quant and popularized by the famous Twiggy, skirts with a long fringe - no matter how much modification has touched this subject of the women's wardrobe! The role of women in modern society was revised at the beginning of the last century, so today every fashionista is free to choose the clothes she likes. The skirts became more comfortable and practical, there was no need to hide the shins and knees. Straight and A-shaped, laconic and luxurious, short and long, dense and airy, simple and multilayered, monochrome and colored - the choice of skirts is limited only by the taste and features of the figure of a woman.
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