subject: Different Patterns Of Clothing [print this page] Some people even used the skins of various wild animals to cover their body. The patterns in which they used to arrange the leaves or skin varies from place to face. This clearly underlines the fact that even the Stone Age people were having a sense of fashion and they want to keep their identity in dresses. As the time passed, various types of clothes have been come to exist. Here also man followed his basic habit of keeping the identity. Different cultures that have been developed in various parts of the world have their own types of dresses and ornaments. Thus dresses or dressing sense also started treating as a part of heritage or culture. Scotland also has its own dressing sense and tartan pattern is the most important in them. Tartan outfits were common in ancient Scotland and every elite family had its own tartan weaver to weave their family tartan.
Just like tartan, Fair Isle sweaters also keep their identity with the unique design. Fair Isle is a traditional knitting method of Scotland which creates some unique pattern with different colors. When a tartan weaver creates designs by weaving wool in a specific pattern to create criss-cross bands in different colors, Fair Isle sweaters carry a totally different design. Anyway, both these patterns have now crossed the border of Scotland and became worlds most sought out patterns.
Earlier, the tartan pattern was used to make only on wool. Later on it has started in every type of cloths. The attraction of the tartan design and the fact that we can make a number of different designs in this pattern using same color combination made it popular. This gave a chance to make uniforms with different designs. The modernization of the textile industry made it easy. When the ancient day tartan weaver used to make one or two clothes in a week, the present day modern industries are producing a large number of cloths with tartan pattern. The case of Fair Isle sweaters is also same. The large scale production reduced the cost of production and the cloths become cheaper. This made the once elite cloths like tartan wears affordable to all class of people.
When a tartan weaver weaves the wool he used natural colors to color the wool. Hence the number of colors available on those days was limited. After the arrival of chemical colors, a number of tartan patterns have come in the market with different colors and different shades of same colors. As the concept of fashion changes, more and more patterns will certainly come to exist.
