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The history of Medieval European clothing and textiles has inspired a good deal of scholarly interest in the 21st century. Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard, and Kay Staniland authored Textiles and Clothing: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, c.1150-c.1450 (Boydell Press, 2001).
In medieval Europe, consumers no longer purchased from fixed stores and instead went straight to the tradespeople's workshops. Markets or street vendors were used to sell perishable goods. The first commercial district in Europe, Chester Rows, was established in England in the thirteenth century. At this time, stores were typically no bigger ...
c. 25000 BC – Venus figurines depicted with clothing. [3] c. 8000 BC – Evidence of flax cultivation in the Near East. [4] c. 6000 BC – Evidence of woven textiles used to wrap the dead at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia. [4] c. 3000 BC – Breeding of domesticated sheep with a wooly fleece rather than hair in the Near East. [4]
Cretan women's clothing included the first sewn garments known to history. Dresses were long and low-necked, with the bodice being open almost all the way to the waist, leaving the breasts exposed. [18] Dresses were often accompanied by the Minoan corset, an early form of corset created as a close fitting blouse, designed to narrow the waist.
A history of fast fashion: ethical issues, high demand, and outsized influence on the US clothing market ... when Zara's first brick-and-mortar store in the U.S. took off, that fast fashion gained ...
A clothes shop or clothes store is any shop which sells items of ready-made clothing. [ 1 ] : 59 A small shop which sells expensive or designer clothing may be called a boutique . A shop that sells clothes for a narrowly-restricted market such as school uniforms or outdoor sports may be called an outfitter .
For broader coverage of this topic, see Nudity. Nakedness and clothing use are characteristics of humans related by evolutionary and social prehistory. The major loss of body hair distinguishes humans from other primates. Current evidence indicates that anatomically modern humans were naked in prehistory for at least 90,000 years before they invented clothing. Today, isolated Indigenous ...
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