Early western travelers , whether to Persia , turkey , India, china , would frequency remark on the absence of the change in fashion there. The beginning in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing style can be fairly reliably dated historian including Jame lave and freehand bradawl date the start of western fashion in clothing to the middle of the 14th century the most dramatic early change in fashion was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over garment from calf length to barely covering the buttocks sometime accompanied with stuffing in the chest to make it look bigger this creating the distinctive western online of a tailored top worn over leggings or trousers .
The pace of change accelerate considerably in the following
century and women and men fashion especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair became equally complex . art
historian are therefore able to use fashion with confidence and precision Ron date image ,
often to within five year , particularly in this case of image from the 10th century . initially change
in fashion led to a fragmentation across the upper classes of the European of what had previously been a very similar
style of dressing and the subsequent development of distinctive nation style
these nation styles remained very different until a counter movement to the 17th
to 18th century imposed similar style one again , mostly originating
from ancient regime France . through the rich usually led fashion in this
world.