Introduction to Clothing Construction specifically the cultural aspects, wherein you'll know the different factors affecting in choosing clothes and also its historical background about the topic.

1. INTRO TO CLOTHING
SELECTION
CULTURAL ASPECTS

2. OBJECTIVES
◦ At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:
1. Understand the cultural aspects of clothing.
2. Determine the different types of clothing in relation to gender differentiation,
social status, and religion.

3. GENDER
DIFFERENTIATION

4. Gender differentiation of clothing is
considered appropriate. The
differences are in styles, colors,
fabrics, and types.
In contemporary Western
societies, skirts, dresses, and high-
heeled shoes are usually seen as
women's clothing,
while neckties usually are seen as
men's clothing.
Trousers were once seen as
exclusively men's clothing, but
nowadays are worn by both genders.
Men's clothes are often more
practical (that is, they can function
well under a wide variety of
situations), but a wider range of
clothing styles is available for women.
Typically, men are allowed to bare
their chests in a greater variety of
public places. It is generally common
for a woman to wear clothing
perceived as masculine, while the
opposite is seen as unusual.

6. Contemporary men may
sometimes choose to
wear men's skirts such as
togas or kilts in
particular cultures,
especially on ceremonial
occasions. In previous
times, such garments
often were worn as
normal daily clothing by
men.

7. In some cultures, sumptuary
laws regulate what men and
women are required to wear.
Islam requires women to wear
certain forms of attire, usually
hijab. What items required
varies in different Muslim
societies; however, women are
usually required to cover more
of their bodies than men.
Articles of clothing Muslim
women wear under these laws
or traditions range from the
head-scarf to the burqa.

8. BURQA

9. Some contemporary
clothing styles
designed to be worn
by either gender,
such as T-shirts,
have started out as
menswear, but some
articles, such as
the fedora, originally
were a style for
women.

10. SOCIAL STATUS

11. In some societies,
clothing may be used to
indicate rank or status.
In ancient Rome, for
example, only senators
could wear garments
dyed with Tyrian purple.

12. In
traditional Hawaiian society,
only high-ranking chiefs
could wear feather
cloaks and palaoa, or
carved whale teeth.

13. In China, before
establishment of the
republic, only the
emperor could wear
yellow.

14. ◦ History provides many examples of
elaborate sumptuary laws that regulated what people
could wear. In societies without such laws, which
includes most modern societies, social status is
signaled by the purchase of rare or luxury items that
are limited by cost to those with wealth or status. In
addition, peer pressure influences clothing choice.

15. RELIGION

16. ◦ Some religious clothing might be
considered a special case of
occupational clothing. Sometimes it is
worn only during the performance of
religious ceremonies. However, it also
may be worn every day as a marker for
special religious status. Sikhs wear a
turban as it is a part of their religion.

17. ◦In some religions such as
Hinduism, Sikhism,
Buddhism, and Jainism the
cleanliness of religious
dresses is of paramount
importance and is considered
to indicate purity.

18. ◦ Jewish ritual requires
rending of one's upper
garment as a sign of
mourning.

19. ◦ The Quran says
about husbands
and wives,
regarding
clothing: "They
are
clothing/covering
(Libaas) for you;
and you for them“

20. ◦ Christian clergy members
wear
religious vestments during
liturgical services and
may wear specific non-
liturgical clothing at other
times.

21. ◦ Clothing appears in numerous contexts in
the Bible. The most prominent passages
are: the story of Adam and Eve who made
coverings for themselves out of fig
leaves, Joseph's coat of many colors, and
the clothing
of Judah and Tamar, Mordecai and Esther.
Furthermore, the priests officiating in the
Temple in Jerusalem had very specific
garments, the lack of which made one
liable to death.

22. THANK YOU!