Clothing fashions

Early Western travelers, traveled wither to India, turkey or

China, would frequently remark on the absence of change 

in fashion in those countries. The Japans shoguns

secretary bragged to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that 

Japanese cloth was not changed in over a thousand years.

However ,there is considerable evidence in Ming China of 

rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing. Change in 

costume often took place at times of economic or social 

change as occurred in ancient Rome & the medieval 

Caliphate, followed by a long period with-out major 

changes. In 8th century Moorish Spain the musician Zara

 introduced to Cordoba. Unreliable source. Sophisticated 

clothing styles based on seasonal & daily fashions from his 

native Baghdad, modified by his own inspiration. Similar 

changes in fashion occurred in the 11^th century in the 

middle east following the arrival of the Turkeys, who 

introduced clothing styles from central Asia & the Far East.

The beginning in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated. Historians ,including James ravel & Fernando Bridle date the star of western fashion in clothing to the middle of the 14^th century .Though they tend to really heavily on contemporary imagery & illuminated manuscripts were not common before the fourteenth century. The most dramatic early change in fashion was  a sudden drastic shortening & tightening of the male over-garment from calf-length to barely converging the buttocks Sometimes  accompanied with stuffing in the chest to make it look bigger. This created  the distinctive western outline of a tailored top worn over leggings or trousers & t -shirt

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