Ancient Greece (jan 1, 800 BC – dec 31, 500 BC)
Description:
- They wore their garments by wrapping, draping, and pinning long, rectangular pieces of fabric.- Both wore garments called a Chiton, it two fabric rectangles joined at the shoulders an held in place by a jeweled pin.
- Sometimes a himation would be worn as a cloak.
- They wore light clothes as the climate got hot.
- Women clothing was to their ankles while men wore their robe to the knees.
- Footwear was not used very often and Greeks mostly walked barefoot.
- Fabrics were dyed by natural plants
- Women and slaves were the one that made clothing in Ancient Greece.
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Date:
jan 1, 800 BC
dec 31, 500 BC
~ 299 years