Edgy Clothes And Breaking The Limits

By Nelda Rich


It has bird feathers lacing the back. It comes with shockingly placed holes. The angles in the shoulders defy your aesthetic eye. The stockings are ripped and sewed in with fishhooks and barbed wire. You love the models hairpiece, but for the life of you, you cannot figure out what it is made of. You have traipsed into the world of edgy clothes and, for better or worse these odd and fascinating concepts have inspired and energized you.

In daring attire, there are some wisdoms that are followed. They break the taboos of comfortable aesthetics. They question our social norms. At first, hard to accept, they display daring concepts. What was once unthinkable is now ingrained into our well-established folds.

The little black dress, a. K. A. LBD, is one such example of the risky turned normal. Greatly adored for its flexibility, the LBD is, historically, ascribed to Coco Chanel, a French designer. The rise of this dress brought us away from the typical use of black as a funerary color. Now, no womans wardrobe is considered complete without one.

Further defying our notions of the acceptable, well-known designs have, even, gone though daring moments with just a cut or an adjustment of length. Take skirt length, for example. At one time wearing a skirt above a certain length was considered indecent. However, mini skirts became a symbol of a liberated woman in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Much of our social boundaries have been crossed, at least, in first world countries. Imagining fresh innovations in clothing design to challenge us socially is hard at best. Some measures taken, in order to deal with this block, has been the use of previously un-thought of materials in new ways and symbolic configurations expressing abstract concepts.

Once such example of bold, modern commentary is the Highland Rape collection created by Alexander McQueen. Slices and lacerations appear in the clothing as if done by a knife or scissors. The name rousing enraged outbursts over misogyny, McQueen clearly explains in defense that the collection was about the violence in Scottish history around the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Styles and concepts can be seen to appear and disappear throughout fashion history. However, clothings nature, being inventive and innovative, recalls something with resounding depth. Specifically, that it is another way to express ourselves though an interactive medium and not just to cover up our bodies.




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