Background on the Origin of Swimsuits
Sports is a cultural activity that gradually emerged and developed according to the needs of human material life and spiritual life. It originated from social practices such as productive labor, military affairs, religion, and entertainment of primitive humans and developed with continuous progress of historical development and social production. Clothing refers to a kind of daily life that human beings wear and dress up. It has the functions of practicality, aesthetics, covering up and symbolizing social status. Marx believed that to be able to create history, people must be able to live. However, to live, they first need food, clothing, housing and other things. Therefore, the first historical activity is to meet these needs, that is, the production of material life itself. In the necessities of survival that Chinese people often say, including clothing, food, housing, and transportation; clothing is even placed before food, emphasizing the distinction between human beings and other organisms.
Both sports and clothing take the human body as the carrier, come together and combine in the long history, forming a unique branch of clothing: sports clothing. Sports clothing is a special clothing produced to adapt to sports activities and competitive sports. It has the characteristics of adapting to various sports and serving the people in sports. With the understanding of the characteristics, and functions of various sports, people began to design and produce special sportswear suitable for various sports, and the evolution and development process of swimwear is the most significant, which has certain research value.
(1) The concept and background of the swimsuit
Swimming is a skill in which people move in water through the interaction force between body movement and water. Swimming is an old and young project. It originated very early, but it has only a history of more than 100 years as a formal international competition. 71% of the earth's surface is composed of water, so rivers, rivers, lakes, and seas are closely related to human life and survival. To survive better, people learn the skill of conquering waters, that is, swimming, making it a useful tool for military, entertainment and religion.
(2) The background restricting the development of ancient swimming clothing
In ancient times, affected by social factors such as politics, culture, and religion, there was no real swimsuit in the east and west. In ancient Greece, although swimming was not an event in the ancient Olympic Games, it was also very popular. In the city-state era, people regarded being well-trained and having dark skin as being beautiful. People are naked in the competition. This is also a unique phenomenon in the history of clothing. However, during the ancient Roman period and the European Middle Ages, swimming was regarded as a channel for lewd behavior and disease infection due to the prohibition of the human body by religious theology, and people worn various long dress, resulting in swimming not developed. In the East, influenced by the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty and the Confucian culture represented by Confucius, the development of ancient Chinese clothing was very slow. It has completely become an appendage of ethics and morality and tends to be introverted. Traditional sportswear is big and conservative, emphasizing the harmony of humanistic spirit and appearance. In ancient China, people generally wore clothes when swimming, mainly to cover up their body, and there were no special clothes designed for swimming.
(3) The background of modern swimsuits
The development of modern sports originated from the Renaissance. During the Renaissance, the thought of sports was developed and valued again. Swimming was re-recognized and loved by people as a means of lifesaving. Most of the people swim with their usual clothes, and there were no corresponding clothing for swimming. In the 19th century, under the influence of education reform, swimming developed rapidly as a recreational and competitive activity, and it first started in England. In 1837, the United Kingdom established the world's first swimming organization: the England National Swimming Association. In 1862, a British club held the first recorded official competition in London's gymnasium, so the official swimsuit came out accordingly. Throughout the development of swimwear, the evolution of men's swimwear tends to develop steadily, while women's swimwear tends to develop rapidly with great changes.
Both sports and clothing take the human body as the carrier, come together and combine in the long history, forming a unique branch of clothing: sports clothing. Sports clothing is a special clothing produced to adapt to sports activities and competitive sports. It has the characteristics of adapting to various sports and serving the people in sports. With the understanding of the characteristics, and functions of various sports, people began to design and produce special sportswear suitable for various sports, and the evolution and development process of swimwear is the most significant, which has certain research value.
(1) The concept and background of the swimsuit
Swimming is a skill in which people move in water through the interaction force between body movement and water. Swimming is an old and young project. It originated very early, but it has only a history of more than 100 years as a formal international competition. 71% of the earth's surface is composed of water, so rivers, rivers, lakes, and seas are closely related to human life and survival. To survive better, people learn the skill of conquering waters, that is, swimming, making it a useful tool for military, entertainment and religion.
(2) The background restricting the development of ancient swimming clothing
In ancient times, affected by social factors such as politics, culture, and religion, there was no real swimsuit in the east and west. In ancient Greece, although swimming was not an event in the ancient Olympic Games, it was also very popular. In the city-state era, people regarded being well-trained and having dark skin as being beautiful. People are naked in the competition. This is also a unique phenomenon in the history of clothing. However, during the ancient Roman period and the European Middle Ages, swimming was regarded as a channel for lewd behavior and disease infection due to the prohibition of the human body by religious theology, and people worn various long dress, resulting in swimming not developed. In the East, influenced by the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty and the Confucian culture represented by Confucius, the development of ancient Chinese clothing was very slow. It has completely become an appendage of ethics and morality and tends to be introverted. Traditional sportswear is big and conservative, emphasizing the harmony of humanistic spirit and appearance. In ancient China, people generally wore clothes when swimming, mainly to cover up their body, and there were no special clothes designed for swimming.
(3) The background of modern swimsuits
The development of modern sports originated from the Renaissance. During the Renaissance, the thought of sports was developed and valued again. Swimming was re-recognized and loved by people as a means of lifesaving. Most of the people swim with their usual clothes, and there were no corresponding clothing for swimming. In the 19th century, under the influence of education reform, swimming developed rapidly as a recreational and competitive activity, and it first started in England. In 1837, the United Kingdom established the world's first swimming organization: the England National Swimming Association. In 1862, a British club held the first recorded official competition in London's gymnasium, so the official swimsuit came out accordingly. Throughout the development of swimwear, the evolution of men's swimwear tends to develop steadily, while women's swimwear tends to develop rapidly with great changes.
