Agarment is an article of clothing used to cover a part of the human body. It is most often made of fabric but the materials used for its manufacture tend to diversify over the centuries. The purpose of a garment varies greatly according to the culture and the periods of history: practice (protection), symbolic (to indicate a moral posture) or even social (to display a status).                                                                                               
                         
Homo sapiens - the anatomically modern human being - would have begun to dress 83,000 to 170,000 years ago1.

 The history of clothing is inseparable from its sociology: studying the conditions that contributed to its birth can not be done without addressing the sociocultural issues of the moment2. It is thus necessary to dissociate the simple original habitacles (generally skins of animals) of the first costumes which will succeed to them, giving gradually birth to the notion of fashion. Of a purely utilitarian role - to protect the human body from bad weather and external aggression, to be able to move easily - the garment evolves by adding immaterial functions: adorned, it becomes adornment. Technical progress and the intensification of trade led to an acceleration in its rate of transformation as of the fourteenth century. Activity originally very local, because dependent on the natural resources of a territory, the manufacture of clothing is now at the heart of economic globalization.

 The anthropologist Marcel Mauss divides the human species into two broad categories according to the type of clothing: the draped humanity which belongs first to the civilizations of the warm countries and the sewn humanity that dominates in the cold regions by adjusting as closely as possible of the body the clothes by the seam in order to fight against the cold and to facilitate the horsemanship3.

 In his work Illustrated History of Costume: Visual Introduction, Jean-Noël Vigoureux-Loridon evokes five archetypes, which constitute and have constituted the garment until today. The first being the "draped", held by a fulcrum that can be the shoulders, chest, waist, hips or head. The second, the archetype "threaded" open to the neck, not sewn. The third, "sewn closed" (high for example), then the "open sewn" (jackets, coats ...) to finish with the archetype "sheath" which marries more or less closely the body (pants ...) 4.

 Among the pioneers of a seasonal arrangement of clothing, we must mention Ziryab (789-857), who was considered in Andalusia as the arbiter of elegance and good taste. Originally from Baghdad, he lived in Cordoba. Paul Balta, Honorary Director of the Contemporary Orient Study Center, explains: "He introduced seasonal fashion (brightly colored fabrics in the spring, white clothes in the summer, coats and fur caps). winter), and created an amazing beauty institute