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  2. Egyptian cultural dress - Wikipedia

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    An Upper Egyptian dress with a small amount of telli embroidery. Many traditional Upper Egyptian dresses, especially older styles, were large T shaped robes worn on top of other dresses for public occasions. They have straight seams and very very wide sleeves. They are embroidered along the seams, shoulder, and/or around the neck opening.

  3. Clothing in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    During the Old, Middle and New Kingdom, ancient Egyptian women mostly wore a simple sheath dress called a kalasiris, [7] which is shown to cover the breasts in statues, but in paintings and relief the single breast depicted in profile is exposed. [8] Women's clothing in ancient Egypt was more conservative than men's clothing.

  4. Clothing in the ancient world - Wikipedia

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    Cretan women's clothing included the first sewn garments known to history. Dresses were long and low-necked, with the bodice being open almost all the way to the waist, leaving the breasts exposed. [18] Dresses were often accompanied by the Minoan corset, an early form of corset created as a close fitting blouse, designed to narrow the waist.

  5. Pleated linen - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has in its collection [3] four excellently preserved pleated linen dresses, all found in 1902-1903 by George A. Reisner at the cemetery of Naga ed-Deir in Egypt. [4] It is not known exactly how the Egyptians pleated linen, but the material may have been "folded, accordion style, then tied, and wetted."

  6. Tarkhan dress - Wikipedia

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    The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing. [2] [1] The dress coded UC28614B is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. [3]

  7. Sheath dress - Wikipedia

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    Originating in the ancient world, the sheath dress is commonly seen in Egyptian art. Presented as slender and youthful, artistic renditions of the women in the garment were common prior to the New Kingdom. Although there was no archeological evidence of a sheath dress among the elite, women and deities are shown wearing the garment in tomb ...

  8. Folk costume - Wikipedia

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    Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.

  9. Fashion in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    The gele is peered with Iro ati Buba, Komole dress or Asoebi dresses by Yoruba women. Edo women wear a wedding crown called an okuku. [2] Muslim women in northern Nigeria wear various types of veil, including the hijab, which reveal the face but cover the hair and may cover much of the body. Veiling may take fashionable forms.

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