An example of the impact of local clothes and accessories on contemporary clothing design: Sivas province

Globalization is the shrinkage of the world into a global village with the development of technology and the disappearance of national borders. The concept of globalization affects many fields such as economy, culture, art, technology, and fashion. With globalization, newly developing mobile networks bring closer to each other over long distances, allowing people around the world to see fashionable clothes through social media. Globalization has both positive effects and negative effects on our lives. The locality is all of the features that distinguish individuals from other societies such as the customs, beliefs, dances, music, local arts, and dressing styles of their own culture. People have always been a reflection of their culture in their traditional clothes. People have expressed their feelings, thoughts, and position in societies with traditional clothing. Clothing styles have become symbolic expressions of people. It is seen that elements such as customs, customs, symbols, music, beliefs, and art are effective in the formation of traditional clothing. Many cultures in the world have their traditional clothing. It is seen that these clothes are used in their designs as a source of inspiration to many designers. Anatolian traditional clothes in Turkey has a rich culture .People color and shape their feelings and thoughts together with these clothes. It can be seen that traditional clothes that exist in Anatolia affect world fashion, inspire many designers and use them in their designs. In this study, it was aimed to introduce these traditional clothes to people by researching the sources of traditional women's clothes of Sivas province, which is located in the Central Anatolia Region, by interviewing people and taking photos. In the second part of the thesis, the effects of globalization on contemporary clothing fashion, in the third part the concept of local culture and clothing, in the fourth part, the effect of local cultures on clothing fashion and traditionalism, in the fifth part, the traditional clothes and accessories of the province of Sivas are introduced. In the last section, local clothes of Sivas province and contemporary clothing samples have been described.