Dress of Argentina



Dress of Argentina

Introduction

Since the emergence of human beings on the map of the earth the people have divided themselves into civilizations and races on the basis of their color, customs, religion, and practices. Civilizations were divided on the basis of continents earlier but as the time passed the culture has been varying for all countries and in some cases cities of a same country have differing cultures.

Every country has its own unique trademark as its traditions and cultures and this paper is exclusively restricted to the culture of Argentina, to be more specific the dress of Argentina which is a sub - category of the culture or tradition of Argentina.

Discussion

Argentina is a country located in South America, which shares border with five other nations Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The capital of the country is Buenos Aires. The temperature is usually arid in the Southeast zone where as southwest have subs - Antarctic climate. The ethnicity of the country comprise of majority white men from the European nations of Spain and Italy while other non - white groups have a relatively low percentage comprising of mestizos and Amerindian. The language of the nation is mainly Spanish but the Spanish spoken in Argentina is different from the language of Spain and resembles more to Italian.

All the above mentioned traits define the cultural values of a nation while there are other various characteristics which define the culture of a nation. Language is a symbolic identity of the culture but more than language the accent plays a vital role in defining the culture of a country, similar to language the dress code and traditional dresses of a country play a vital role in define the culture of a nation (Larkosh, 2007).

Dressing style of Argentina

The dressing sense of argentines is classy at the same time elegant. If we view the common trend of dressing of people in Argentina it is clearly observable that people will be observed in well dressed form. Amongst the men the dresses might be shirts or soccer jerseys with jeans but majority will be observed wearing dress pants with trendy shoes. In women a touch of feminine is clearly observable through their dress code where clothing which highlights feminism is clearly observable, this includes long shirts and frocks. In Argentina fitted dresses are preferred which presents a groomed personality.

Climate plays a vital role in defining the type of clothes of a certain country. Argentina lies in the southern hemisphere where the dressing style is exactly opposite that of the northern hemisphere as per the season because when it is winter in the northern region it is summer in Argentina.

In the months of March till may tot observable that people of that area prefer to wear sweaters and light jackets. In the months from June till august winter is at peak for the country of Argentina and people will prefer wearing warm jackets in those times. From September to November the weather starts warming ...