Xinyi Guan
About
Fashion designer
Womenswear
Hosiery designer
Tights
Dressing up is a way of self-expression and connects the emotions and understanding between the generations. Tights can be a gift that women choose for themselves. Tights are an essential part of my wardrobe and also connect me, my mother, and my grandmother, passing down love and acceptance intergenerational.
Tights are the material I chose to develop through the project. Tights consist across generations, how different generations use the tights, and interact with tights that inform the understanding of each other and our relationship in the family. Knitting Printing Dyeing Flocking Smocking with tights are the ways of developing the fabric that stemmed from my memories.
*Tights should to the very beginning be a way for women to accessorize and please themselves for their own sake. The popularity of stockings in China started with the student dress, which was the dress of girls who went to Japan to study during the early Republican era and was also called the new civilized dress at that time. In the previous era, women were covered with layers of coats and layers of skirts that reached the floor. The new dresses gave women the right to wear lighter and thinner clothes. Foreign socks became the key accessory connecting Western-style brogues to Chinese-style cardigans.
*In the 1960s, there was a knee make-up trend that swept through the West, knee make-up was all based on the idea of creativity and self-expression. Knee makeup was primarily fashion-driven. Leg makeup was ostensibly the result of women realizing there was room to decorate this newly acquired space. Knee makeup as well as shorter hemlines can be seen as another way for women to enjoy their new freedom.
Dressing in tights is a way, a choice for women to please themselves. It’s also a little pleasure to prepare for the outfit before going out, like wearing perfume for a daily going out choice, a nice experience. The dressing also embraces intergenerational understanding of each other and tightens the emotional bond between the family.
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