What is the sundress different from the dress?

Elegant and feminine representatives of the weak half of humanity helps to look like a dress. They can be with long or short sleeves, of different lengths, from light or dense fabrics. In the hot season, a sundress comes to replace this item of clothing. In this article we will try to figure out what the sundress is different from the dress, and a little bit of history.

These types of clothing have their own, very noticeable features.

Such clothes in ancient times could be worn by men and women, but over time, the ladies fully captured the “rights” to it. This is a thing with long floors that cover the upper part of the legs.

So called a kind of dress that does not have sleeves. In Russia in the 9-14 centuries, both women's clothing and a specific long men's caftan were called a sundress. Only from the seventeenth century only peasant women began to wear it, putting them on shirts, commoners, and also merchants' daughters. However, Catherine the Second made a sundress a universal item of clothing for all classes.

This female attire has its roots in the Russian national costume, having passed the evolution from simple attire to an elite class attire. The most important element of the dress-sundress are straps:

• narrow or wide;
• straight and intertwined in the back or chest area;
• different textures;
• laced

However, now there are also models without a strap. In addition, such items may be long and short, although the first option is preferable.

Dresses sundresses like pregnant women, because with a different type of bodice - tight-fitting breasts or loose, the skirt is never tight-fitting. It can be Greek cut, tulip, Empire, etc. This allows you to hide the protruding belly.

Dresses and sundresses are sewn from a variety of fabrics of any color, depending on what time of year they are intended:

• cotton;
• flax;
• tweed;
• chintz;
• wool;
• atlas;
• chiffon.

Often the sundress is not worn on a naked body, even in the warm season it can be a top or T-shirt. In winter, in order not to freeze, under it they wear thin sweaters, turtlenecks, blouses.

Covering the dress implies the presence of sleeves and a closed top, the underlining of the figure, that is, the fit. The sundress can be exclusively on the straps and freedom of cut.

Currently, sundresses and dresses can be worn, as they say, in a feast, and in the world. With proper selection of material and accessories, these items of clothing can be dressed up in an office, a social event, a walk, a restaurant.

So, things from chiffon will decorate evening and daily output. In the daytime, these are shortened models with bright prints, and in the evening - black or golden, pastel shades.

Sundresses and dresses made of flax are complemented with jewelry or jewelry made of stone and wood. They are worn with sandals with high heels or ballet shoes in the office.

Crocheted exclusive products will make the image unusual and memorable. Such models have a fitted style, lining of expensive materials, trimmed with rhinestones and beads, Swarovski stones.

Dresses from expensive fabrics complement the model shoes with high heels. For accessories, belts, belts, scarves, and various jewelery are excellent for this and that.