Monday, August 22, 2011

Ancient greek fashion

During the ancient time of Greeks their was no fashion  
Industry most clothing was homemade and the same piece of homespun fabric that was used as a type of garment, or blanket. Garments often included elaborate border design.
Made of linen, cotton, or wool was woven in home. As the ancient Greek were very skilled in arts of weaving and embroidery
 , we can tell that the fabrics were intensely colored and usually decorated with intricate designs. Greek clothing was made out of three types of materials. The first mostly used was wool which was woven from very coarse to very soft. They used linen grades from fine to very soft.
Clothing was not cit to fit and was usually made from a rectangle of wool or linen. Women wove the fabric on s loom in a loom in their homes. Ancient Greek clothing was easy to clean and store.

Clothing was simper and loose fitting, with few basic forms and much similarity between outfits worn by man and women.


 Ancient Greek women wore long tunics called Chilton
Chiton is wide and long .It was made up of linen witch is very light the it was designed as a long and wide rectangle of fabric sewn up at sides, pinned or sewn at the shoulsers,and girded around the waist. The chiton was wide enough to allow for sleeves that were fastened along the upper arms with pins or buttons Women sometimes wore an epiblema (shawl) over the peplos or chito


The peplos was a large rectangle of heavy fabric, usually wool, folded over along the upper edge so that the over fold (apoptygma) would reach to the waist. It was placed around the body and fastened at the shoulders with a pin or brooch. There were armholes were on each side, and the open side of the garment was either left that way, or pinned or sewn to form a seam.

Both the peplos and chiton were floor-length garments that were usually long enough to be pulled over the belt, creating a pouch known as a kolpos. Under either garment, a woman might have worn a soft band, known as a strophion, around the mid-section of the body.
. Men wore a shorter tunic called an Exomis Men in ancient Greece customarily wore a chiton similar to the one worn by women, but knee-length or shorter. An exomis (a short chiton fastened on the left shoulder) was worn for exercise, horse riding, or hard labor.
Clothing for women and men consisted of two main garments-a tunic (either a peplos or chiton) and a cloak (himation).
The himation (cloak) worn by both women and men was essentially a rectangular piece of heavy fabric, either woolen or linen. It was draped diagonally over one shoulder or symmetrically over both shoulders, like a stole.





 

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