Why do Fashions in Clothes Change?(插图)
Why do Fashions in Clothes Change?
Fashions in clothes change for almost as many different reasons as there are fashions. Among the chief causes are changes in the kind of work we do, the cost and availability of the materials used and the invention of new materials, such as man-made fibers.
The attitude of different societies toward the body and how much of it should be displayed is also important. For example, if a girl in the Middle Ages had worn a mini-skirt she would have been regarded as either mad or wicked, social standards change from age to age from country to country.
There have been dramatic changes in fashion in our century, partly owing to the availability of new and cheap rnaterials and partly because this generation believes those clothes should be a matter of personal choice, and comfortable ils well ils attractive.
Many of the fussy clothes of our ancestors, often requiring yards and yards of material, would be too expensive to produce today. They would also be unsuited to modern living imagine cycling in a crinoline.
Great wars often influence fashions. During the Second World War the style of women's clothes became military. Jackets, for instance, had square and padded shoulders. After the war, this fashion changed to the voluminous, more femine, new look of Dior, the great French designer.
Another big change happened after the First World War. Women who had worked for the first time with men in the factories durin ng the wars began to dress with greater freedom and started to wear short skirts.
Today, what we wear is largely a matter of personal choice, convenience and what we can afford.
作文地带点评：作者在第一段开门见山指出服饰变化有种种原因，然后按时间顺序，具体说明服饰变化的过程及原因。最后一段指出如今人们着装变化的主要原因。
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