Egyptian Akhnaton Coat Wearable Art Modern Interpretation by John Jones By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Egyptian Akhnaton Coat 1976 Wearable Art – Ancient Egyptian Costume by John Jones Egyptian Art as a Source of Inspiration The decorative pattern elements within Egyptian art, and other archaeological finds, have fascinated me since childhood. Therefore, it was …
Early Clothing in Costume History – From Skins to Celtic Costume
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Weaving and Use of Skins No one can be absolutely certain that early man wore clothing as we know it. But researchers in the late C20th, found evidence of fine weaving in the Czech region. This was observed from studying illustrated archaeological pottery artefacts from the region. Clearly cold …
Ancient Costume Fashion – Egyptian King Tut (Tutankhamun) Colouring Pictures
Explore King Tut costumes and ancient Egyptian fashion history with some coloring pictures and insights.
Ancient Costume – Early Assyrian Clothing c800 B.C.
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Early Assyria Egyptians were geographically close to the other great civilisations of the ancient world, including Iraq an area once known as Mesopotamia. The Greek term Mesopotamia meant ‘land between Rivers’, i.e. land between the river Tigris and river Euphrates, rivers often mentioned in the Holy Bible. Thousands of …
Ancient Egyptian Clothing Costume Dress Plates
Ancient Egyptian Clothing History -Skirt, Cape and Draped Shawl Styles By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Third Style – Skirts & Capes The Petticoat Skirt and Cape After the tunic and the robe, came the third style of Egyptian dress, the petticoat skirt with cape shawl. The petticoat skirt was a straight piece of material …
Ancient Greek Hairstyles
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Fancy Dress – Greek Costume Ideas for Drama, Carnival Floats & Olympic Events Read more factual details of Greek clothing on the Greek chiton clothing history page. This page has images of typical draping arrangements of Grecian dress for women of ancient Greece. The overall look for both Ancient …
Styles of Roman Battle Dress for War in Costume History
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Roman Battle Dress This page has pictures of battle dress and armour of the Roman soldier. The normal formal robe for a noble Roman citizen was a toga worn over a simple tunica. As time passed the Roman toga lost the bulk of its fabric and became much smaller. You …
Ancient Greek Clothing History | Greek Chiton Doric | Peplos Himation Chlamys
The chiton was a type of clothing made of a rectangular piece of woolen or linen fabric, worn by ancient greek men and women.
Egyptian Dress Costume Plates – Warrior King Costumes
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Warrior King Egyptian Costume Right – A male costume which is easy to make. This site concentrates on female dress, but for Egyptian fancy dress purposes I have included these few extra male styles from the book that I researched. As well as noting that most Egyptian costumes were …
Roman Costume History | Roman Women – Hairstyles and Dress | The Stola
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Roman Women – Dress As ever, Roman women’s dresses were a little different from the men’s tunics. For example, they were often pale rose, or aqua. The female equivalent of the male Subacula (under tunic), was the Intusium, a sleeveless under-tunic. Women also wore a bust bodice called strophium …