Blouse
A blouse is a mostly shirt -like garment cut - hence often " blouse ", see also the shirt - that women often for formal office attire as costume or pants suit, wear. Besides hot very far and easily cut tops, with or without buttons, also blouses. ( Also: Choli - an upper part in Indian costume )
History
Blouses are usually made of light fabric (textile ) such as silk or thin cotton fabrics, until the early 1990s still often made of softly falling synthetic fiber fabrics (eg, polyester and satin ). Sometimes they are decorated (for example, ruffles, embroidery or loops). The classic women's blouses is the white blouse (similar to the classically elegant white men's shirt ) - here are the most fashionable combinations particularly diverse. The open Spaten- or lapel collar is another common type of a classic women's blouse.
Early 20th century, confessed to the world of men to women in sports. Condition was a matching sports apparel, on the one hand allowed freedom of movement, on the other hand, " womanly " was. As part of this development, the blouse experienced its breakthrough. 1913 wrote the week, the women's blouse in equestrian sports:
The blouse with a high collar was increasingly replaced in this period by the " neck- free" variant. Matching offered specialist retailers " Damenkrägen " to. The largest German department store in Berlin KdW competed in his Illustrated Catalogue: 1913, among others, the flapper - clothing for young women, with eight blouses 2.75 to 9.50 marks. The simplest was a " wash blouse, navy, white spotted", the most expensive one " blouse, white, Waschvoile, with lace and embroidery ." Among the " season -New Products" was the sharp cut " charmeuse blouse, very elegant shape, pure silk, with very brisk crepe and lace set " for 19.75 marks.
At the beginning of the 1970s were rounded collar ( collar dachshund ), then later extra-wide collar and double cuffs on blouses, these are often made of synthetic materials ( usually polyester), on. In the 1980s, followed the fashion of the stand-up collar and waistband, loops and the particularly small shirt collar, sometimes with concealed placket ( " Tuxedo Blouse" ), stitched pleats and emphasized shoulder pads. Here, too, were thin and often shiny synthetic fibers very popular. Towards the end of the decade, extra long blouses were worn over trousers or skirt, optionally combined with a wide, wide belts around the waist.
There were among women who felt the then resurgent environmental movement belonging, loose-fitting ( folkloristic ) Blouses from rough and natural materials such as flax (linen) or cotton ( men often helped Fries blouses ).
Many fashionable styles of the 1970s and 1980s go after the turn of the millennium in the blouses fashion one: double cuffs, extra wide pointed collar, belt at waist, synthetic fibers and the like. Often the blouses also embroidery or rhinestones, especially on collars and button facing. A striking phenomenon of the 1990s were the blouses with the so-called three-quarter sleeves. Blouses can be readily and easily combine chains with a blazer, tank top or sweater, colored silks or ( beads).
Earlier, the " good shirt " part of the nightlife clothing and status symbol of the so-called " elegant woman " that she was wearing at least on Sundays to church. Today is the blouse, except they are used as formal office wardrobe, unimportant, and often serves as a colorful piece of clothing among many, that will also love to wear casually open about a t -shirt or top.
Ocular difference between a men's dress shirt and women's blouse is that the buttonhole strip on the left side. For the Lord is right.
Word Meaning
Blouse is a loanword from French: blouse is called " Fuhrmann coat, dust coat ". It should be a souvenir French Crusaders. And they went over their armor a so-called " p (e ) lusisches robe ," a blue- colored gowns against the dust which had its name from the Egyptian city of Pelusium. Other sources state that it prov of lano blouso " short wool", lano " wool" and merely, blouse " deprived, naked " is derived.
Today we find the term " (shirt ) Blouse" still in the field of military clothing, a uniform part with epaulettes - worn over trousers; even with work clothes ( milker blouse, smock, Fries blouse ). But it is better known term in the classic women's clothing described above.
Related is also the blouse-jacket, a sleeve blouse from Richer material or lining, which can be worn alone or as a jacket over a top.
A Body Blouse ( or blouses Body) is a blouse that is in which, as in a body, the front part connected through the crotch region through to the back part. Thus, the cut-to- figure blouse will not slip out of the skirt or the pants, and always fits perfectly.