Clothing culture is an important part of human culture, expressing character of human civilization. It is an indicator of an individual's identity and shapes a personal fashion identity. The fashion identity is not static; it changes over time, returns cyclically and is transformed through clothing/fashion trends. Its return is in some cases due to the fashion industry, aestheticism and aesthetic experience, folklorism and messages that fashion image represents.
In the Eurocentric world, the closest clothing ideas relate to the revitalization of the Middle Ages’ clothing, especially Arthurianism, as well as clothing that derives from other periods, and are now present in modified forms, such as cottagecore, academia, Edwardian core, Victorian core or even Austrian national clothing (traditional and modernized) and others.
Hanfu is the latest or the clearest phenomenon, in the process of the return or revitalization of historical Chinese clothing appearance (also through the hanfu movement), the return of which is powered by several different factors. The strongest guide for its return is the aesthetic experience and the aestheticization of the clothing appearance.
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