Obviously, the form of costume is depending on the form of human body. This fact separates the art of costume from design and architecture. Thus, fashion always has been longing for human body's stylizing in costume. The form of costume has always been submitting to the human body's form. Nevertheless, this is also true, that the costume forms are able to create the "perfect" human body in accordance with the fashionable and cultural standard. The fashion dress history can be divided into several periods in dependence on covering or discovering of the form of human body. However, the tendencies of...
on the attitude of society to human body.

For centuries body-like costume have transformed human body in accordance with an abstract ideas of "perfect" beauty. Only the invention of alternative methods of human body's transformation has stopped the deformation. Now diets, fitness and esthetical surgery can make the perfect body not it's illusion.

Besides, modern fashionable costume is not a demonstration of power and wealth, but a sort of entertainment, just a game. So modern body-like costume don't transform the real body but lay stress on it's perfect forms. We can say that modern body-like costume release real human body.