lunes, 17 de noviembre de 2014

The inspiration of the flamenco dresses in the costum

The pictorial works are always an important reference point in the fashion. The art draws art. And concretly, the flamenco fashion has got its inspiration in the costum. The pictorial gender that developed on the decades XIX and part of the XX and that reflected its own and different character for the andalusian culture.
 
Flys, laces, shawls and fringes have always defined the flamenco dresses, additionally of the beautiful forms and escotes. And these elements are the ones that we can find from the painting of Gonzalo Bilbao, José García, José Villegas, Joaquín Sorolla or Julio Romero de Torres that marked the topic of the andalusian and sevillan woman.
 
On this work of José Villegas, titulated as Baile flamenco, is a clear example of inspiration for the dresses that combine white and some coloured elements.

On these scenes appears colourful flamenco dresses with the stamps of flower or spots. Also the complements have their place, that on these days is impossible to miss when passing the day in Real or to go for the walk to El Rocío: fans, earrings, combs and flowers, a part a great smile and one cautivate sight.
 
Other pecualirity of the flamenco dress that also reflects to the sewer illustrations is the hairdress: the tradition is to put the hair gathered in a bun, even though the women of the epoca left an impressive bun to the front.
 
The paintings of the costums still continue being the inspiration for the flamenco fashion, however, the idea of the andalusian beaty on that epoca and the flamenco dresses have been adapting the times. And as we already know, the gipsy dress is the unique regional dress that has been changing with the trends and fashion. And on these days there is different kind of designs of flamenco dresses for the women as well as for the girls, with diverse colours, stamps, with short or long sleeves, or even the skirt until the knees.