Research On Retro Garment In The New Century

Under the new social context,"retro" as a word gets more connotations, which expands its fields and has begun to enter the traditionally basic necessities of mankind such as clothing, food living and moving. Nowadays,"retro" has developed into a trend that has swept various fields, thus becoming synonymous with "fashion". Clothing as a main component in the fashion industry has naturally become a research focus. Seen from the apparel market in recent years, the apparel resurgence frequency has been significantly accelerated. Clothing described to be "retro and vintage" has been emerging in endlessly."Vintage clothing" seems to become a representative of "fashionable clothing"."Fashionable clothing" has created an unstoppable fashion trend which has swept the whole fashion industry. The author wants to identify reasons why vintage clothing appears. Whether vintage clothing is produced owing to the law of social development or the special background of the modern society? What are the specific manifestations of "vintage" in fashionable clothing? In this thesis, based on two research problems mentioned above, analyses and discussion are made.Firstly, based on a comparison between the "old-fashionable" and "nostalgia", I analyze the connotations and features of "retro" in the modern context. Moreover, based on the "retro" phenomenon in the new century, I analyze the reasons why appear the "retro" phenomenon from both subjective and objective aspects, so as to lay a foundation for dividing types of vintage clothing and identifying reasons of the appearing of vintage clothing. Secondly, I expound the relationships between clothing and vintage, and between clothing and fashion. Based on the retro phenomenon of fashionable clothing, I divide retro clothing into two kinds by the renews way. One refers to the clothing designed purely based on old-fashioned clothing.The other one refers to the clothing designed based on the combination of both old-fashioned and newly-fashioned clothing.Based on subjective reasons such as the nostalgic psychology and the psychology that people eager to be unique, I divide the retro clothing to be new as follow kinds: Two kinds of retro clothing are caused by nostalgia and individual psychology. I take the examples about the retro phenomena, analyzing and comparing in-depth about the two different psychological states causing the appearance of two kinds of vintage clothing, and explore the different reasons why produce the two kinds retro in clothing, and identify conditions which make the clothing retro chic such an impressive display of power or influence. On the basis of in-depth discussion of reasons, relevant factors affecting the fashion trend of the contemporary clothing are summarized. Lastly, an analysis is made of the significance and values for the existence of vintage clothing, in hope of providing reference for the predication of the fashion trend and design of vintage clothing in the future and improving the utilization of people’s clothes so as to realize the low-carbon life. It can be conclude that the vintage clothing in different types has different manifestations and gets different reasons to explain why different kinds of vintage clothing are produced. Despite of different manifestations and production reasons of vintage clothing in different types, vintage clothing, under the combined effect of various factors in the modern society, makes joint development and evolution, thus eventually forming a great retro fashion trend.