Elegant Dressing Gowns

Dressing gown is considered as a dress item for warmth in winter, cover the body when wearing nothing else or to look in proper shape and decent upon waking up from sleep in the morning and conveniently slip into gown.

Personalised Dressing gowns have evolved historically through centuries. In the ancient history of the regions and countries, when Europe was not as developed, other civilizations were at their peak. They had perfected their architecture and living style in all manners. Arabs were constructing palaces in Spain the Europeans did not know even to make their houses. Persian Empire was a developed and well established in all respects with a history of centuries. Chinese had long before manufactured finest silk cloth and made dresses for their elite class and royalty. Their dresses were well designed, elegant costly. Dressing gown was an essential part of their dress and was worn with pride and as symbol of dignity and status. Europeans were nowhere near them in any manner. 

The paintings of old Chinese kings and their elite class very clearly shows wearing of the costly and well decorated dressing gowns of fine silk. The dressing gowns were standard dress in many countries throughout the history. Probably gown provides more space for display of art and craft; it pleased both, the elite class to wear it and the craftsmen to show their acuity of artistic creativity.

The use of gowns is also seen in the dresses of the Persian elite class. They were very costly attire made of fine fabric and decorated with ingenious designs of embroidery with gold and silver threads. The scholars wore these gowns or robes as they called as symbol of their identity.

Far in the East Japan has the history of their national or cultural dress. Kimono is well known all over the world. This dress is still worn with pride in Japan.

People in the colder regions like Kashmir, China, Tibet, mountainous areas of India, Afghans and Russian regions all wore robes made of wool and sometimes quilted with cotton to keep them worm. All these cultures used gown shaped dress with different names in their areas. It is in the 17^th century that Europeans adopted it as informal dress.

All those cultures still use these robes or gowns for protective purposes and these dresses have become a symbol of identity for each culture.

Personalised Dressing gowns is an elegant wear in the glamorous world of Hollywood.

Dressing Gown through Ages and Cultures

Probably gown is the most primitive dress worn by the human beings in the colder regions. This was the easiest in make and the only thing a man could think of as a dress. Just a hole in the skin of an animal or some cloth sort of thing to slip in one's head and leaving the rest as covering the body made the complete dress. This could be the invention or innovation of cold regions. Gradually as the awareness increased and man learnt to make things better, it could have taken the shape of the present personalised dressing gowns. There is hardly any different in the basic shape. Dressing gown is a long loose sort of wear which has now become an outer wear with all details remaining the same.

What is a gown? It is defined as a loungewear worn in the house.  There are different descriptions if this dress item and would be informative to know about them.

If we see different civilizations or cultures we find this ‘robe’ present in same shape with slight differences. Europeans have tried to own it by devising its history in their culture. The word ‘robe’ came from old French language to Middle English meaning a garment. There are different names for this dress item with slight differences between them like: cloak, cape, robe and personalised dressing gowns. The basic difference is in the length and shape of sleeves. 

However the bathrobe despite having the shape of a gown is different and cannot be grouped in the category of dressing gown; though same in shape is made of some absorbent towel type fabric that dries the body as a towel, absorbs water and moisture.

Historically we see kings and the elite class wearing luxuriously decorated gowns over their dress. Chinese wore it since centuries. China has been famous for its production of fine silk and has been their ancient trade. The same fine silk was used in making this gown. The Persian kings wore the gowns made of Persian ‘tafta’ a specialty cloth made in Persia. We find this gown in the ancient civilization of Japan. Pathans wore it and similarly Tibetans wore these gowns made of wool. All above civilizations are much older than the European history. 

In Europe the personalised dressing gowns was adopted and usage is seen around mid 17th Century, initially only men wore it worn by men. It was the influence of China, Persia and other Asian nations where this dress was already in use. In those regions dressing gowns were well decorated carrying artistic designs and embroidered with gold and silver threads.