Get ready because on November 18th the singer Beyonce Knowles will be releasing her third solo album! I predict many albums will be sold if not just for her songs itself that she is nude on the cover. Yes guys you heard correct, you can see some skin. Sorry Jay-Z, I am just telling the truth. Beyonce is one of the few celebrities that can change her entire look and get away with it. Her hair ...
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The appearance of Western clothing and fashion during the Meiji era (1868 1912) represents one of the most remarkable transformations in Japanese history. Since the United States' 1854 treaty allowing commerce, negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry, the Japanese have enthusiastically and effectively borrowed and adapted styles and practices from Western countries. Until then, Japan had isolated i ...
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Tattooing is practiced on the Japanese islands, in the Jomon period (c. 10,000 - 300 B .C . E .). Similarly scarification, the art of carving designs into the skin, has been practiced since ancient times in Oceania and Africa to make a person's body more beautiful or signify a person's rank in society. c. 3100 B .C . E . Egyptians weave a plant called flax into a light cloth called linen and made ...
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The Jutti is a shoe worn by men, women, and children throughout India. Most often made of leather from the hide of buffalo, camels, or cows, juttis can also have uppers, or the tops of the shoe, formed from other textiles. Juttis are heavily decorated with cotton, silk, or golden embroidery and sometimes wool pompons, or tufts of material. The jutti is identified by its pointed toe and flat, str ...
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While the men living in the Sumerian, the Akkadian, and the Babylonian empires of Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present-day Iraq, went barefoot all the time, Assyrian men began to wear sandals for everyday use around 911 B.C.E. Showing these changes are sculptures and bas-reliefs, or wallcarvings, from the time period depicting men with foot coverings. The evi ...
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We start our fashion history month with the Roman Empire the most powerful of the ancient empires. It is belived that this outstanding civilization rose from humble origins as a city in central Italy. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire stretched from Spain in the west to present-day Syria in the east, and from Egypt in the south to Britain in the north. The story of the rise and fall o ...
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