Now and Then:The Neckline History of Women

Authors

  • Sharmin Shoukat Lecturer, Fashion Design & Technology Department, BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology (BUFT), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Keywords:

History, implement, modern, Neckline, women.

Abstract

Neckline is an important part for every dress. It is directly related for changing shape and beauties of a dress. From ancient period to till now neckline hold an important part for every women. Neckline is becoming more useful for creating fashion design, illusion and changes the shape of face in some way. It is repeated from ancient period to modern period .There has been some change in ancient necklines, while they are using in modern time due to the reason of changing tradition, culture, trend ,fashion and demand. But the origin may have same. In my research I have showed that the changes of necklines and the modern implementation of the ancient necklines. The purposes of the research are to find out the changes of neckline throughout Mesopotamia to 1990 of European fashion history and find out the development Neckline.

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2016-10-29

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Shoukat, S. (2016). Now and Then:The Neckline History of Women. American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 26(2), 33–52. Retrieved from https://asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/2203

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