Body-Life European Costume

Certainly, female body most of all was required to be improved through fashionable costume. Historically, the development of the female body-like costume has been depended on the function of a woman in a society. During centuries a women have been playing a role of a doll, a mannequin. She was to demonstrate her husband�s wealth and authority.

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Therefore, the main duty of women through ages was to look magically. To look magically meant to look in accordance with the ideal beauty. Body-like costume helped women to reach the ideal and it means that body-like costume helped women to be a success. For ages to make a carrier for women has meant to get married successfully. In order to be a success, a woman was to suffer.

Corsets were the main part of body-like costume. They transformed her body made a stress for it. Corsets, bodices and crinolines helped to be beautiful. They made a thin waist, narrow hips and tempting breast. Therefore, woman was ready to suffer, embodying the ideal of beauty.

The ideal beauty was not a beautiful human body, but the body transformed. Only transformed body could realize an abstract esthetical scheme of body, called the idea of body. The idea of body is created by society and usually reflects the heart of epoch.

Thus, the idea of body is depend on the cultural and esthetical development of society. For example, the idea of body in Italian renaissance was a strong healthful body. The Italian body-like costume created special forms that were to lay stress on the sexual power both of women and of man. We can say that Italian body-like costume of Renaissance was to stress the flesh. Meanwhile, the Spanish body-like costume tried to hide the sinful women�s body. Certainly, the difference in body-like costumes depended on the attitude of society to human body.

For centuries body-like costume have transformed human body in accordance with an abstract ideas of �perfect� beauty. Only the invention of alternative methods of human body�s transformation has stopped the deformation. Now diets, fitness and esthetical surgery can make the perfect body not it�s illusion.

Besides, modern fashionable costume is not a demonstration of power and wealth, but a sort of entertainment, just a game. So modern body-like costume don�t transform the real body but lay stress on it�s perfect forms. We can say that modern body-like costume release real human body.