We’re watching the tweens, like Sasha Obama; the teens, like Selena Gomez; and the Y Generation, insert name here! for fashion and style inspiration. Who are the teen glamour queens, and what are they wearing? Who are the musicians you’re listening to, and what are THEY wearing? What are the sources you use to find out? GOOGLE! YAHOO! CONCERTS! TV SHOWS, just to name a few. 
Putting your finger on the pulse of fashion is easy when you have good sources. How do you gauge the mood of fashion today? Check out on-line magazines, newswire reports; celebrity blogs. Here, from the Associated Press – “Judging from the runway, tough times have energized the designers (on the Milan runways). The current preview showings for next winter, now at the midway point, are about real clothes for real women.” Although Prada had some strictly runway-fun with tall waders on the feet and gloves for hats during her most recent runway strut.
Haute Couture, Its Meaning and Role in Fashion Today – Fashion History: “Haute Couture is a French phrase for high fashion. Couture means dressmaking, sewing, or needlework and haute means elegant or high, so the two combined imply excellent artistry with the fashioning of garments. The purchase of a haute couture model garment is at the top level of hand customised fashion design and clothing construction made by a couture design house.”
Early in the culture the loincloth was used by both sexes. And that’s practically all men wore, ever. Unlike the Egyptians, the shanti varied according to its cut and normally was arranged as a short skirt or apron, ending in a point sticking out similar to a tail. The fabric passed between the legs, adjusted with a belt, and almost certainly, was decorated with metal. The women wore the garment more as an underskirt by lengthening it. They often are illustrated in statuettes with a large dagger fixed at the belt to provide them with personal safety. Dresses also were long and low-necked, so low that the bodice was open almost all the way to the waist. (And they wonder why they needed to carry a dagger!)
For the common people, agricultural work was the overwhelming reality of their lives. Greek Life Even the rich, who did not labor in the fields themselves, tended to oversee directly the farming of at least some of their property. This mainly outdoor life: farming, hunting, horseback riding would determine the main form of men’s fashion.
For Women, clothes were normally made at home from locally available wool or flax (used to make linen). The two most commonly worn garments were the chiton (tunic) and the himation (cloak). Cut into a simple rectangle measuring half again the height of the person wearing it, it was folded over, wrapped around the body, and pinned at the shoulders and side. It was sleeveless, with large arm openings. The way to tell a woman of means were the versions she wore that were decorated with elaborate woven figures or designs. They were also made of linen that fell into more elaborate vertical folds than its heavier wool counterpart.
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