Designer clothes are generally considered to be a particuler type of garment created in limited numbers and distributed to select outlets. They are usually more expensive than lower end clothing, but not always. These clothes can vary in quality as well as price, from relatively inexpensive items to those which cost nearly as much as a new house.
The first designer clothes appeared in Paris around the Victorian era. Before then, clothing was made at home by hand but now fashion designers dictated the clothing the public wore through publications as well as word of mouth. In it s early form, designer clothes were only affordable to the upper class but with the advent of synthetic textiles and mass production fashionable clothes became for accessable to the public in general. These dats fashion is a multi billion pound industry, with fashion shows in London, Paris, Milan, Japan and New York every season.
There are 2 main types and stles of designer clothes ready to wear (RTW) clothes range from £20+ to several hundred pounds andtend to include most of the garments that you will find at a shopping centre or during runway show. These types of clothes are made by machine before being distributed to selected retail outlets around the world. These garments are manufactured based on one pattern that is resized for production. Haute couture clothes are specialist clothes manufactured on a much smaller scale by a few slect couturiers. There are just a few true couturiers working in the world and each is selected by the Chambre de la Haute Couture in Paris. These particular houses are famed for a level of skill and detail that simply cannot be reproduced in a garments that are mass manufactured. Custom made pieces are assembled by specially trained seamstresses before the trim is hand finished. Haute Couture items are significantly more expensive than ready to wear items with a simple suit costing around £10,000 whereas a couture gown can cost at least £20,000.
Designer clothing is crafted to a quality much superior to lower tier clothing. There will also be some form of branding to identify it and great care is taken of the detailing of this branding as it will help to make it identifiable from the replicas on the black market. Harking back to it s Victorian origins, designer clothing inadvertantly has a large influence on status as those that wear it are seen to be able to afford it. The extent to which this belief is ingrained in society can be seen when children so commonly ask their parents for expensive brand shirts or jeans rather than equally comfortable or well fitting no name brands.
As the manufacturing process becomes cheaper, designer clothing has started to lose its foothold on the market a little. People are tending to favour unique one of a kind fashions as opposed to more expensive items. Brands and designers who were once considered high end are now starting to make more affordable ranges in order to survive in the economic downturn. Designer clothing will never die and there will always be a demand, however it will increasingly become less of a necessity.
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Dave Matthews is writing on behalf of Room 14 (http://www.room14menswear.co.uk), an online retailer of mens clothing.
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