Research On Women's Dress Silhouette From 2000 To 2006

Silhouette, being dress's outline, presents the whole profile in the backlighting after dressing, and embodies the definitions of dress's structures, styles and patterns. Making a general observation of China-foreign clothing history, the changes of clothing can be described with the outline change. Silhouette design is particularly important as the first step in costume design, which determines the overall quality of clothing. The popular forecast is from the forecast of the clothing silhouette. Designers can analyze the rules from the line profile of the clothing changes, so as to forecast and grasp the Fashion trend, guide designs and lead consumption in a better way.Great change happened to women's dress from the year 2000 to 2006. This paper purposes to find the rules of dress's changes through the study of wearing silhouette changes from 2000 to 2006. And this paper is divided into three parts:Part I: The definition, express methods of silhouette, and some important eras, which have significant impact on the 21st century clothing silhouette. This part plays a fundamental role on the entire paper.Statistically, research based on a sample survey methodology is used for clothing silhouette's data quantitative analysis. The collected data samples are mainly from annual selection of the top 10 conference fashion works in《WWD THE MAGZINE》, the most authoritative international fashion information magazine. Combined the percentage of major proportion with the elements of popularity every year, identify the most representative of the epidemic in each silhouette, represent by silhouettes and find the final developing plan from 2000 to 2006 clothing silhouette. The silhouette's percentage plan can show the uniformity of the distribution. A representative silhouette for a period of time has elapsed. At present, several major silhouettes exist together, and the clothing's development is in diversification.Part III: Reach the conclusion through the study of silhouette from 2000 to 2006Both internal and external factors affect the clothing silhouettes. The internal factors include changes in the aesthetic image of the region and aesthetic changes. External factors include a number of factors, such as politics, economy, war, society and technology. Moreover, different fabric, clothing styles and the film culture all have a certain influence on the silhouettes.The popularity of clothing silhouette is not a single-track change, not to wait for a new silhouette's appearance after the complete recession of former silhouette, but an interlaced change. This popularity develops like wave-type and come into being in the alterations and changes of the following silhouettes: the mainstream, upbeat, direction and fad silhouette. While under the normal circumstances, the change in silhouette is slower than the clothing changes of color and length. However, with the rapid development of information technology in the 21st century, clothing silhouette changes cannot be divided by five years as a stage any longer. In recent years, silhouette's popular life cycle is in the two-to-three-year period. Development in two years is almost identical, one year means a transitional period. From 2000's square outline to 2006's circular contour evolution, change began gradually from a part to the whole and process. The silhouette of 2000 and 2006 is "reactionary" and "contradictive" respectively. Reaction means the popular cycle goes up spiral-shaped, and some silhouettes will appear repeatedly with a little change. Contradictions, that is to say, there is always one hale, one elegant, one loose and one tight kind during the representative silhouettesFashion changes in the silhouette of each quarter, even if very subtle, can lead the global trend. Professional men should find the rule in the changes of popular silhouette order to grasp of fashion, design works so that more and more people can accept, and create greater benefits for enterprises.