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While the chemise dress of the Empire period relied on pattern-cutting to establish the high Neoclassical-style waistline, the fullness of ancient Greek apparel was controlled by the use of bindings (07.286.23; 32.11.4) and ties. Frequent depictions of double girdling on both the peplos and chiton suggest that the most common practice was to use one cinch functionally in order to pull in the ...
- Women in Classical Greece
Hemingway, Colette. “Africans in Ancient Greek Art.”...
- Women in Classical Greece
This misconception, thought to derive from the faded and abraded surfaces of originally polychromed Greek statuary and architecture, continues to this day in fashion. Drapery of the classical and Hellenistic periods of Greek art sometimes appears purely as a foil for nudity, clinging and spiraling around the body. Often, this effect occurs in ...
Jul 21, 2015 · It will become a resource for reimaging Greek dress (and perhaps even ancient dress more generally), and I look forward to the new work it will spark over the next century. Notes. 1. quoting M. E. Roach-Higgins and J. B. Eicher, “Dress and Identity,” Clothing Research Journal 10.4 (1992): 1. 2. For example, the gemstone of Fig. 5.14 is both ...
- The Peplos
- The Chiton
- The Himation and The Chlamys
- Mixed and Matched
An ancient garment for women, the peplos was a large rectangle of wool wrapped around the body, sometimes belted, and pinned at the shoulders. This was definitely a case of “one size fits all,” as any extra material would be folded down as far as necessary to accommodate the height of the wearer. According to the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–4...
The chiton was a light tunic-like garment made from two pieces of fabric sewn together with a hole cut out for the head and invariably belted at the waist. Originally made of fine linen, it was often made of silk for women. Since the sleeves were sewn together, there could be no danger from potentially lethal pins. Historian Mireille Lee has noted ...
The himation was a kind of cloak worn by both men and women, consisting of a large rectangular piece of fabric, usually wool, typically draped diagonally over one shoulder and wrapped around the body, as seen below. Although a himation was commonly worn over a chiton, men sometimes wore the himation on its own. A garment exclusive to men was the ch...
Although the story from Herodotus referred to earlier makes it sound as though the peplos went out when the chiton for women came in, the artistic record implies a more complex situation. Both garments appear on the stamnos by the artist known as the Chicago Painter (because his most important vase is this one in the Art Institute’s collection). On...
Jul 13, 2021 · Generally speaking, most of what is known of ancient Greek clothing reflects only the upper-class as they were most often depicted in artworks, and these preserve the kinds of clothing worn. In the Minoan Period, upper-class men of the court seem to have dressed primarily in loincloths, a cloak, sandals, and sometimes a headpiece while women were more completely covered save for the breasts ...
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Hemingway, Colette. “Africans in Ancient Greek Art.” (January 2008) Hemingway, Colette. “Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art.” (July 2007) Hemingway, Colette. “Architecture in Ancient Greece.” (October 2003)
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