Chapter II. Roman, Greece and Egypt. The Corset and the Crinoline.
The Corset and the Crinoline. Chapter II.
Tag: Clothing in ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece was generally very simple in character, often consisting of a single rectangle of fabric, not sewn, but wrapped around the body, with almost identical styles in both men’s and women’s clothing.
Shoes of antiquity. Sandals, closed footwear of the ancient world.
Classical Antiquity. Footwear. Fashions and Customs. Calceus, Ocrea, Caliga, Campagus, Crepida, Solea, Pero, Ceremonial shoes, Runner’s boots, Lace-up shoe.
The Grecian Silhouette. The Grecian chiton of the Classical period.
In the figure we see the silhouette of that costume which forms our ideal of proportion and grace of line.
Dancing in ancient Greece. Cubistic, spheristic and stage dances.
The Greek dance usually took the form of those slow measured movements which Simonides described as “silent poetry”.
The Ionic dress in Ancient Greece.
The Ionic dress is more ornamental and richer than the Doric. This style became popular later in Greek history and was more complicated.
The transition from Doric to Ionic dress style in late ancient Greece.
Ionic dress. Compared to modern dress, it was an easy, comfortable, simple style of clothing.
Greek doric. Costumes during the so-called Golden Age of Greece.
You will notice, from the Doric column in front of which they are standing, how closely the simple, open, unelaborated costume blends with the earlier Greek architecture.
The Homeric costume of early Greeks. Dress of ancient Greece.
The early Greeks are called Homeric, because they were the people who waged the wars described by Homer in his poems.
Greek Military. Two warriors in armor of iron, bronze, and leather.
The two warriors in the picture are wearing or carrying most of the types of war material used by the Greeks for over a thousand years.
Minoan or Mycenaean Age. Costumes of ancient cretan people.
The Cretan costume of Antiquity. Long ago on the island of Crete there lived a group of people called Cretans and belonged to Minoan or Mycenaean Age.