Study On Clothing And Shaping Up Human Body

The essence of clothing is the important problem of clothing basic theory.Although the Japanese famous scholar listed the theory of clothing essence in hisstudy of clothing theory, this problem is always weakness and short of professionalstatement. To study this problem, it can help basic theory of clothing deep and makefashion innovate.The paper studies the theory of clothing essence, and forms a new theory.The paper studies four aspects of the problem: 1.the position of the theoryessence of clothing essence in clothing theory system. 2.what is the essence ofclothing, and why? 3.from the essence of clothing, the paper studies the measure ofclothing.4.from the essence of clothing, the paper studies methodology of fashiondesign.The paper thinks the essence of clothing is shaping up human body. From this,clothing should be adapted human body measures, material measures, societymeasures with dialectic way. The methodology of fashion design must include fourtheories: 1. Human body is natural base for fashion design;2.fashion design is holisticdesign for Human body;3.fashion design should increase human body's value ofbeauty;4. Fashion design often wants exceed human body.The study of the clothing essence is the meaningful theory that guide people tounderstand complex clothing phenomenon and give the essential ways for designers tocreate new form of clothing.