Cloth for the holiday and holiday for the cloth

Lubomir Stoykov

Is there a better way to express your joy, high spirits and emotional mood, passions, thrills and aspirations than with the appropriate chosen cloth? The thoughts are joyful, the feelings are light, why than also cloths can’t be in aesthetic harmony with the cheerful mood? Would you say it isn’t so that the caricature cloths, the ridiculous outlook and kitsch or even dirty cloths can’t destroy your holiday occasion and festive moment? The Christmas and New Year’s holidays are not the only reason to think about the cloth for the holiday and the holiday of the cloth. As a rule, the beautiful and official moments in life of the man are ritual interruption of the banal and gray everyday life. That’s why it is normal to spare time, money, thoughts and specially - to imagine original ideas, to enforce the holiday with the cloth and to find the adequate cloth for the holiday. But what exactly it should be - very expensive or too original? Crazy or decent? Provocative or conservative?

The fabrics are of huge importance: quality, structures, facture, colors, patterns, functionality and so on. During the holiday occasions we convince ourselves in the value of the maxim “Fabrics are making the fashion”. The natural fabrics, the impressive textiles (with metal threads and lurex, for example) or the use of chiffon, organza, wool, silk, taffeta, organdie, crepe, muslin and so on mostly guarantee comfort, self-confidence and elegance at the holiday occasion and festive moment. The little black dress for women and the classic suit with (and more often without) a tie - for men- continue to be with emblematic meaning. The newest trends show bigger preferences to the floral motives in cloths and to the classic components - belts, bags, pearls, cashmere scarves and so on. Lately women are becoming more aggressive in conquesting the typical for men attributes - tail-coats and dinner-jackets, strict silhouettes, short coats and straight trousers. It is even said that nowadays the perfect woman is the one who takes the best from the men’s outlook…

The holiday cloth is not only cloth for the holiday but also a holiday for the cloth. And if that is true, so let’s give a will to our imagination, be beautiful and elegant, joy and clean, positive emotional and different with our outlook. Let it be!

Translator: Silviya Madina

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