Fashion & Textile Research Journal (한국의류산업학회지)

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Design Characteristics of Contemporary Male Skirt and Expansion of the Masculine Image

현대 남성 스커트의 성별이미지에 따른 디자인 특성과 남성적 이미지의 확장

  • Ryu, Limjeong (Dept. of Human Environment & Design, Yonsei University) ;
  • Lee, Jeehyun (Dept. of Human Environment & Design, Yonsei University)
  • 류림정 (연세대학교 생활디자인학과) ;
  • 이지현 (연세대학교 생활디자인학과)
  • Received : 2015.02.23
  • Accepted : 2015.04.25
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

Male skirt is found in traditional costumes all over the world. Due to the development of tailoring skills in the early Middle ages, men started wearing breeches and pantaloons gradually distinguishing the different characteristics of menswear and womenswear. Since then, skirt became the strong representation of the female gender, symbolizing the feminism. However, under the influences of technological development and diversification in 2000s, gender identity has been diversely expressed in modern fashion allowing male gender to embrace different sexual identities. The purpose of the study is to analyze the nature of male skirts, which have been popularized in modern men's fashion through both the expressional elements and compositional elements. This study associates design elements of male skirt, gradually appearing in the contemporary men's fashion with the sexual symbolism and reinterpreted it's significance in the flow of the modern fashion. Reinterpretation of the gender image in costumes are considered to contribute to the cultural context and extension in diversity. These research results forms a basic foundation to expand in studies of men's fashion design and gender image of costumes through cultural contexts and it's changes. It is considered that this can lay groundwork to make various attempts at passing over the archetype of the gender image besides the continuous appearance of male skirt in the field of fashion design.

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