From the Stone Age to our living today, the garment has become an indispensable item to our human society. Moreover, besides the function of garment, It represents the essence of material civilization and spiritual civilization in our human evolution culture. In the Portland Art Museum, there are numerous great examples for understanding the backgrounds and cultures of garments. When we wandered around the museum, we suddenly realized the difference of garments between different culture. We are living in a society with diverse cultures; therefore, different garments represent cultures from different nations. For our exhibition, we have chosen four garments from Native American, four Miyamairi kimonos from Japan and four dirndl from western culture. We are extremely interested in discovering the civilization of clothing.
In the second floor of the Portland Art Museum, there is an area presents multitudinous objects of Native American. We were astounded by the fascination of Native American culture, especially the garments were full of national color. Therefore, we decided the garments of Native American become one of traditional garb for our exhibition. In the traditional garb of Native American, we got a child’s vest, a dress with glass beads, a woman’s
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It is a traditional garment for newborns to visit the Shinto shrine in Japan. Incidentally, Miyamairi is a very common and traditional ritual in Shintoism, when a newborn who turns one month old, the family will bring the baby to a Shinto shrine for blessing. The designs of Kimono have attracted our attention, and leading us to explore the beauty of culture. Those designs were inspired by animal, beauty of nature, multicolor. As previously stated, Kimono has symbolized to the Japanese culture, and “down through the ages, it has reflected both the aesthetics and the thrifty practical ingenuity of the