THE SILK GARMENT BETWEEN ART, PHYSIOLOGIE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTResearch Paper • November 24th, 2010
Contract Type FiledNovember 24th, 2010Abstract. The garment, beyond its aesthetic, social and body-protection purpose, plays an important role to determinate the state of the wearer. The individual wearing the garment perceive sensations caused by his garment transmitting to the viewer visual images regarding his personality and emotional state. It is in this context that the essential role behoves to the materiality of the garment. Throughout history, the individual perceived, unconsciously, the causes, the state incited by the extraordinary textile materiality of the silk. Therefore, today the silk is used for the garment because of its esthetic and as a consequence of knowing its psycho-physiological effects.