RENAISSANCE EUROPEAN CLOTHING. GENDER AND SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES EXPRESSED THROUGH AESTHETIC FEATURES
RENAISSANCE EUROPEAN CLOTHING. GENDER AND SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES EXPRESSED THROUGH AESTHETIC FEATURES

Summary/Abstract: Until the 14th century, the correspondence between clothing and the personal identity of individuals manifested itself through the expression of social status, functions and occupations, and standard of living. Costumes were not means of communicating inner identity, taste or individual personality, but were primarily tools for signalling social or gender identity. Until the 14th century, one cannot speak of the existence of personal style, with the meaning of deliberate choice in the absence of conservative constraints of social, political or religious norms and rules. Starting from the 14th century, although clothing remains a form of communication of social status and at the same time a mirror of the collective spirit, the first timid attempts to individualize clothing are produced. The lower social classes are gradually trying to overcome the limits of an image determined by their modest condition, now reproducing the costumes of the bourgeois and the representatives of the upper social classes are developing impressive wardrobes. The individualization of the garments was due to their unique manufacture and not in series, having as a source of inspiration the court costume models and being in fact personalized variations of these prototypes.

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