Korean Style

Korean fashion, Korean Dresses and their western influence

Fashion, clothing that is in style at a particular time. The concept implies a process of style change, because fashions in dress have taken very different forms at different times in history. Thus, when English playwright William Shakespeare observed that "the fashion wears out more apparel than the man," he meant that clothing becomes unfashionable long before it has worn out.
 
Korean fashion can be traced back to ages, from Han Bok which is still wore by Koreans at special occasions, but the growing standing of the oriental culture had contributed significantly to the rise of fashion and clothing, especially in Korean fashion. Korean fashion has gone through major change these days; the western fashion has significantly influenced the Korean fashion. But Korea fashion is different from Chinese though the countries are near.

The western fashion has most of its influence on the Korean fashion, with the similar climates, in America and Korea, Koreans like to wear American type apparels, typically reflects the American influence in Korean fashion. But Korean fashion mainly is expressed through girls and women.Most of the Korean girls love to wear T-shirts of famous brands and wordings. Korean women too have a rich taste in incorporating Korean fashion in their dressings; Women often prefer delicate fashion with much designs, colors and sutures. And men too subsidize equally for the Korean fashion, they concentrates more on the fabric quality and the modern trend in the west. But Korean fashion does not forget always to manipulate and adapt the western fashion into the Korean style. Making the modern and trendy Korean fashion.

Korean dress directly reflects the Korean fashion, the changes in the fashion is much too frequent as Koreans are highly adaptable and sensible for fashion and culture. The western influence is much heavier in the Korean dress. The climatic conditions in Korea are highly similar to the west making the western fashion readily acceptable in a typical Korean dress.The modern Korean dress are mainly based on the climate and the available trend around the world, the Korean dress are based on the four seasons, (Spring , summer, winter and autum) , the celebrities  at the movies, music and also television series.

A typical Korean dress will be mainly aimed at the female population who contribute the major share for the fashion business, thought the traditional Korean dress's are still worn, women prefer mush more comfortable yet fashionable dresses. They range from caricature t-shirts for young girls, Chiffon dresses, silk, satin dresses, jackets and many more new Korean dresses.

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