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History of Western Dress
Ch. 3
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 3
03/13/2009

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Term
draped dress
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- created by the arrangement around the body of pieces of fabric that are folded, pleated, pinned, and or betted in different ways.

- usually fits close to the body

- thought to have developed after people learned to weave cloth

Term
amulets
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- charms worn around the neck to ward off evil

Term
greaves
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- military costume

- was shaped leather or metal protectors for the lower legs

Term
pilos
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- a narrow-brimmed or brimless hat with pointed crown

- worn by men and women

Term
Phrygian Bonnets
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- brimless caps with a high padded peak that fell forward

Term
petasos
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- worn with chlamys was a fitted cap with large "brim to shade crom sun and keep rain of head"

Term
perizoma
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- loincloth, garment worn by men either as an undergarment or for athletic contests

Term
chlamys
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- a rectangular cloak of leather or wool pinned over the right or left shoulder

- worn by men over chiton, especially for travel

- could be used blanket at night

Term
himation
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- a large rectangle of fabric that wrapped around the body

- compared to wrapped shawls of mespatomia

Term
doric crown
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- men, short w/ few exceptions 400-1000 bc women, long 450-300bc

- narrower than ionic, without sleeves, fastened with one broach (fibula) @ shoulders

- wool, linen, or silk

Term
ionic chiton
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- men; short or long

- women; long to ground

 

- full, longer sleeves, fastened with many small brooches at shoulder

 

- lightweight wool or pleated linen

 

- 550bc to 480bc less often 480bc to 300bc

Term
doric peplos
Definition

- Crete and Greece

-women

- to ankles

- close to body, fastened with large straight pin at shoulder

- patterened wool

-archaic period to c.550bc

Term
chitonistos
Definition

- Crete and Greece

-men

-short between hip and thigh

- close to body, similar to doric peplos

- patterened wool

- archaic period to c.550bc

Term
chiton
Definition

- Crete and Greece

- the garment previously called tunic

- garment sewn together at shoulder and under arms

- some were just made by taking a rectangular piece of fabric and wrapping ir around the body and securing it at the shoulders

- could be belted

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