Spanish Era 1521 to 1899.

At the point when the Spaniards came and settled in the nation, the designs changed greatly, and the Spanish society impacted the succeeding hundreds of years of Philippine History. The Spanish broke down the kingdoms and joined the nation, bringing about a blend ethnicities and Spanish society.   All through the sixteenth century up to the eighteenth century, ladies wore a Spanish form of the Baro’t saya, made out of a bodice called a camisa, regularly made in pineapple fiber or muslin and a story length skirt, while the men wore the Barong Tagalog, a secured ribbon shirt or a suit.   Spanish Era: (1800-1899)   By the nineteenth century, because of the impact of Western society, and because of the rising economy and globalization, there was the presentation from the European designs. ladies’ dresses started to change. Ladies’ attire then had full wide skirts instead of the straightforward floor length skirts, a bodice called “”camisa”” which implies pullover in English and a panuelo, a major square fabric collapsed triangularly and worn in the Philippines. The clothing is made out of four pieces, in particular the camisa, the saya, the pañuelo (a scarf, additionally spelled panuelo) and the tapis. The camisa is a collarless chemise whose hem is at the midsection, and is produced using translucent fabrics, for example, pineapple fiber and jusi.   The pañuelo is a hardened covering for the neck, which goes about as an accent piece due to embellishments added to it. The reason for the pañuelo is identified with unobtrusiveness, used to cover the low-necked camisa’. The saya is a skirt molded like a rise with a length that starts from the midriff achieving the floor. These are typically included both of single or twofold sheets, called “boards” or dos panos (lit. “two boards/layers”); a few made out of siete cuchillos (lit. “seven blades”).   The tapis is a knee-length over-skirt that embraces the hips. Tapis plans might be plain, and is normally made of misty fabrics, for example, muslin and the madras material, furthermore is utilized for unobtrusiveness as it keeps the lower middle from appearing because of the slenderness of the saya. Likewise, while setting off to the congregation or going to mass, the ladies as a rule wore a cover over their heads, like other Catholic nations during that period of time. The men likewise kept on wearing the Barong Tagalog, a collarless shirt made from the ethnic fabric called ”canga”.   After the Spanish era came to an end, and the United States defeated Spain, fashions once again took a drastic turn. American influences, as well as greater economic opportunities became available, so did a change in fashion and dress. The Maria Clara became a very important dress of the day, and helped to usher in the 20th Century. We wish there was more information, and more photographs available regarding the colonial days of the Filipinos, however after 1898, more and more data can be found. Plenty of documentation, as well photographic history, is available to us to view fashions trends based on American interaction with Filipinos.