Costume varies in a form according to the components and the form represents each independent period, and also the wearer's sex, status, class and vocation. In the Renaissance period, people made the upper part of the body swollen and expressed author...
Costume varies in a form according to the components and the form represents each independent period, and also the wearer's sex, status, class and vocation. In the Renaissance period, people made the upper part of the body swollen and expressed authority and rigid dignity with dresses. On the contrary, in the Baroque period, they showed authority with brilliant ornaments. In the Renaissance and Baroque periods, they wore doublet as an upper garment, i.e. a paradigmatic body of an outer garment, from which we can see the name and use of costume were same, but forms were different. That is, the length of the constituent of costume's form in the Baroque period became so short that it was changed into and ornamental form, disclosing chemise of and underwear outwards.