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 the 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. …
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 …
Early Clothing in Costume History – Saxon, Frankish and Anglo Saxon Cloth 500-1000AD
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com After the fall of the Roman Empire Britain went into the period known as the Dark Ages and the next area of costume is of the Saxon and Frankish fashion era 500 to 599 AD. This page is one of illustrations only and further below these small illustrations are …
Roman Toga | How to Make a Roman Toga & Tunic. Byzantine Dress
A look back into ancient costume, the roman toga.
Ancient Costume – Egyptian Dress Costume Collars
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Ancient Egyptian Decoration Styles of Egyptian robe with free pattern guides were discussed on the detailed pages of Egyptian Costumes. However, decorative elements were mostly confined to the removable collars on garments and other removable accessories such as headwear, girdles (striking wrap sash belts) and deep arm cuffs. To …
Ancient Greek Mens Clothes | Greek Soldiers costumes
Ancient Greek men wore a chiton or a himation typically made of linen or wool and could be sleeveless or have short sleeves.