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Ancient Greeks depicted in variety of different costumes. Detail of a Kore's dress 14th-century military martyr wears four layers, all patterned and richly trimmed: a tunic and a mantle decorated with a tablion. Greek dress refers to the clothing of the Greek people and citizens of Greece from antiquity to modern times.
The Ionic chiton could also be made from linen or wool and was draped without the fold and held in place from neck to wrist by several small pins or buttons.. Herodotus states the dress of the women in Athens was changed from the Doric peplos to the Ionic chiton after the widows of the men killed on military expedition to Aegina stabbed and killed the sole survivor with their peplos pins, each ...
Statues at the "House of Cleopatra" in Delos, Greece.Woman and man wearing himations. 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]
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 ...
The clothing of men and women at several social levels of Ancient Egypt are depicted in this tomb mural from the 15th century BC. The preservation of fabric fibers and leathers allows for insights into the attire of ancient societies. The clothing used in the ancient world reflects the technologies that these peoples mastered. In many cultures ...
Byzantine dress changed considerably over the thousand years of the Empire, [1] but was essentially conservative. Popularly, Byzantine dress remained attached to its classical Greek roots with most changes and different styles being evidenced in the upper strata of Byzantine society always with a touch of the Hellenic environment.
Minoan jewellery has mostly been recovered from graves, and until the later periods much of it consists of diadems and ornaments for women's hair, though there are also the universal types of rings, bracelets, armlets and necklaces, and many thin pieces that were sewn onto clothing. In the earlier periods gold was the main material, typically ...
Ancient Greek clothing consisted of lengths of wool or linen, generally rectangular and secured at the shoulders with ornamented pins called fibulae and belted with a sash. Typical garments were the peplos, a loose robe worn by women; the chlamys, a cloak worn by men; and the chiton, a tunic worn by both men and women. Men's chitons hung to the ...