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Clothing in ancient Greece included a wide variety of styles but primarily consisted of the chiton, peplos, himation, and chlamys. [2] Ancient Greek civilians typically wore two pieces of clothing draped about the body: an undergarment ( χιτών : chitōn or πέπλος : péplos) and a cloak ( ἱμάτιον : himátion or χλαμύς ...
Over the period clerical dress went from being merely normal lay dress to a specialized set of garments for different purposes. The bishop in the Ravenna mosaic wears a chasuble very close to what is regarded as the "modern" Western form of the 20th century, the garment having become much larger, and then contracted, in the meantime.
Amalia created a romantic folksy court dress, which became a national Greek costume still known as the Amalía dress. [3] It follows the Biedermeier style, with a loose-fitting, white cotton or silk shirt, often decorated with lace at the neck and handcuffs, over which a richly embroidered jacket or vest is worn, usually of dark blue or claret ...
A peplos (Greek: ὁ πέπλος) is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by c. 500 BC, during the late Archaic and Classical period. It was a long, rectangular cloth with the top edge folded down about halfway, so that what was the top of the rectangle was now draped below the waist, and the bottom ...
A himation (/ h ɪ ˈ m æ t i ˌ ɒ n / hə-MAT-ee-un, [1] Ancient Greek: ἱμάτιον) was a type of clothing, a mantle or wrap worn by ancient Greek men and women from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic period (c. 750–30 BC). [2] It was usually worn over a chiton and/or peplos, but was made of heavier drape and played the role ...
Hermes wearing a chlamys. The chlamys (Ancient Greek: χλαμύς, chlamýs, genitive: χλαμύδος, chlamydos) was a type of an ancient Greek cloak. [1] It was worn by men for military and hunting purposes during the Classical, Hellenistic and later periods. [2]
Clothing reformers later in the 19th century AD admired ancient Greek dress because they thought it represented timeless beauty, the opposite of complicated and rapidly changing fashions of their time, as well as the more practical reasoning that Grecian-style dresses required far less cloth than those of the Rococo period.
This category describes traditional and historic Greek clothing. Modern Greek clothing should be categorised under Greek fashion or Clothing companies of Greece Subcategories