Introduction

Fashion trends throughout history have shown us that styles do evolve, but
eventually come back around to repeat the never-ending cycle that we see
today. Fashion is not only apart of self-expression, but can be used as a
way to analyze social structures and events of the time period.
Welcome to my senior project, a coloring book for both children and
adults, that contains various costumes designs from different eras. I have
been surrounded by the world of fashion starting at a very young age, and
have always been passionate about history and design, so I decided to combine the two into this project.

In order to satisfy each of the many guidelines of the Senior Project, I incorporated both my Graphics and Humanities emphasis through my analysis and study of historical fashions, along with the designs and layouts of
this book. To start off the design process, I found factual and textual evidence of what the styles of Ancient, Middle, Classical, Modern, and so on
looked like. To continue with the humanities emphasis, I will describe why
each design presented was popular for the time, and what they meant socially and historically.
The regions and time periods that I will be covering include Ancient
Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, Middle Ages Europe, Renaissance
Europe, and Modern Europe (1650-1840).
Each era and region have unique styles only shown in their culture, but
many have similar fabrics or designs, showing unity amongst world fashion
for the time.

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt began in around 4000 B.C.E, and prospered for almost four
thousand years before being taken over by the Roman Empire. Before the
split, Egypt was one of the most powerful societies to ever have existed,
with complex cultures pertaining to style and design.
Similar to Greece and Rome, the Ancient Egyptians draped their clothing
across the body, and created folds in the front. This was cause the back to
be shown, as well as outlining the figure, dissimilar to the Greeks and Romans. Their cloth was woven from flax seed and was very rough.

Egyptian women had a standard outfit of the sheath dress, which was either strapless, or had two thick straps
suspending it. These dresses were
often made of expensive, transparent
linen.
The Kalasiris was a well-known garment, that wrapped around the body,
usually from under the chest, and
was made of sheer linen.