Multipurpose backpack
The backpack was from World War Two. It is the starting point of Military style bag. The design of large amount of pockets due to practical value of carrying necessity. Army store everything they need in case they can't go back to campsite immediately. Pockets are designed in different size in order to separated the functions. Pockets designed for medicine, telescope, food and knife. The colour is very close to ground like brown. It won't get dirty easily and easy to camouflage.
Water proof lunch bag
Handmade waxed canvas bag is fixed with an oil-tanned leather strap and brass buckle. Durable waxed cotton canvas is designed for customer who want to use again and again. These bags are handmade in West Asheville
Orders and Medals of Major-General Thomas Staunton St Clair
St Clair served with the 5th Portugese Cacadores in the Peninsula. They have excellent reputation in fighting and these eight medals proved it. Medals made with gold and sliver. Different shape and colour made them looks fashionable even in today.
Medal accessories Xander Zhou Fall 2013
Xander Zhou Fall 2013 has collaborate with designer accessory brand YVMIN. MIN design to use medal as inspiration for this season. Metallic appearance combine with colourful ribbon and funny shape. Accessories for this season are popular and receive plenty of order after London fashion week.
Military uniform
The military uniform has developed at the end of World War Two. Shorts and hats appear. Soldiers can wear shorts in summer time and it brought convenience and comfortable to them. The design of two big pockets in the front are for small tools like knife and bullets.
The collection of Junya Watanabe for this season is about military style. This is a innovation design for womenswear. Big green jacket with big pocket in the front and camouflage print pattern sweater are all present the practical value and uni-sex wearing.
Fashion trend always influence by the history. The story and style come over again and again. Military trend style has never stop on the stage. In my opinion, there are several reasons.
Firstly, the uniform for soldiers are design for fighting. The most important thing to concern is the standard of convenient and practical value. How could a jacket be muti-functional and comfortable of the cutting. All these elements are concerned and designed over and over start from the World War One. The military uniform still improving in nowadays. Military jacket are suitable to wear in the situation of camping, mountain climbing and all the exploration activities. So, the strong practical value of military style jacket make it become very popular in menswear.
Secondly, man do looks cool and strong in military uniform. Many movies and books has create a strong and greatness figure of soldier. So, there is a huge space of imagination of military uniform. That is also the reason why medal become a archetype of accessories design.
As manifested in Womenswear, it also reflects the greater influence that women are having as wage earners and household budgeters in the current economic downturn. (Cyril Foiret, 2010, P.20)
However, fashion trend is start to be uni-sex. So some of the designer combine the military style into womenswear and achieve huge success. The status of woman has changed in our society. Woman have their jobs and need to do exactly the same volume of works as man. So for most of woman, they won't wear fancy dinner dress everyday especially for working days. Woman still love haute couture like Dior but the feminate delicate design not suitable for everyday life that much. As a sample of myself, I wish there more jacket for girls that with several pockets. Then i can put some necessity like mobile phone and glasses in it.
Military style influence our life a lot, no matter in which design area. As time goes by, i believe more and more people will start to accept this kind of design. Not only in fashion aspect but also the highly standard of functional value.
Bibliography(2006) Junya Watanabe Fall 06 ready-to-wear,2010, [online image] Avalible at:http://bestschizoever.blogspot.co.uk [Accessed 16 June 2010]
(2009) Water proof lunch bag, 2010, [online image] Available at: http://store.kaufmann-mercantile.com [Accessed 8 July 2010]
(2013) Xander Zhou YUMIN 2013 AW Jewellery, 2013 [online image] Available at: http://www.weibo.com/xanderzhou [Accessed 10 Jan 2013]
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