The repurcussions of ancient civilisation costumes on wedding dress designs and contemporary implementations

This study named as " The Repurcussions of Ancient Civilisation Costumes on Wedding Dress Designs and Contemporary Implementations" has been prepared as a thesis in the postgraduate programme at Arel University Social Sciences Institute, Textile and Art Major department. In scope of this study, the costumes belonging to ancient civilisations like Sumerians, Acadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome have been analyzed and as a result of this analysis wedding dress recommendations have been made for these periods as well as the contemporary times. In addition to these periods, the impact of ancient civilisation costumes and wedding dresses on the middle age, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo periods have been addressed as well. In this study while scrutinizing the ancient civilisation dresses; written and visual resources such as books, dissertations, articles, archeological findings, murals, reliefs have been used. In the section where the ancient civilisation costumes have been interpreted and compared to the contemporary wedding dress designs: the wedding dress and houte couture shows between 1988-2021 have been examined and the appropriate visuals from these shows have been used accordingly. In light of the findings of this research; the wedding dress is accepted as the most important coştume that reflects the personal tastes, beliefs, cultures, living ways of societies starting from ancient civilisations and going on up until today and it was concluded that the models used in ancient civilisations are the inspiration of today's wedding dress trends.