The Alchemist and The Fashion Around the World

Fashion around the world

Background information about the Genius Hour project:

For my Genius Hour project, I decided to research about different culture's traditional clothing and the significance of the clothing in that specific culture or region. After researching, I am likely to create a book about it, and that is mainly because I want to spread awareness of the significance of that traditional clothing to the young adults and the coming generation. In the book I will be sketching the traditional outfit of a specific region into something more modern yet still not losing the traditionalism, which can be wear by the young adults today and the future generation. The reason I want to do this project is because, since I was little I always enjoyed fashion, in general, and if I have to choose a career other than in Health-science then its likely to be related to fashion designing. Because of such reasons, I want to do create this book and I will give my all efforts in to create this book.

Research:

North America:
Native American-
There are many different clothing styles in North America according to different tribes, and many times looking at the accessories and clothing helped them tell apart the difference between people of different tribes.
In most of the tribes men wore breechcloth and most of the of time it was made out of leather, because of the cold climate. Men didn't wore shirts back then, and the only exceptions for that were the soldiers. The soldiers wear special war shirts which were decorated with feathers, hairs, beads as well as intricate quillwork. Most of the women would wear dress in most of the tribes, and in some such as tribes they would wear shirts. The shows were common for most of the genders, which were heavy moccasin, leather shoes, or mukluk , heavier boots. In some tribes they would prefer they would prefer bare foot. Over time feather headdresses and woven blankets started to get really popular among the Native American tribes. The word that is used by natives Americans for their traditional clothing is Regalia, which are mainly used in their ceremonial occasions.

Types of Native American cultures (North America):
The Arctic- It is the present day Alaska, Canada and Greenland, and the people there mainly use seal and otters skins to make warm, waterproof clothing.
The Subarctic- Mainly composed of piney forests, waterlogged Tundra and it stretches from Alaska and Canada. It was very hard for the people in this region to travel, so they created the snowshoes and warm yet light weighted clothing out of animal's skin.
The Northeast- This is the present day Canada's Atlantic coast and stretches all the way to Mississippi river region. Their clothing were mainly made out of fox's skin, and this helped them have a distinguish them to other tribes.
The Plains- This the vast prairie region from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains. They mainly created their clothing out of buffalo's skin and most of the women wore dresses.