Clothing of mythological characters

In ancient Greece, the gods wore the same clothes as mortals.

The fabrics were made of wool and goat hair.

Women spun the fibers and then worked them on a loom, making generally rectangular pieces.

The measures depended on the proportions of the person concerned.

They tightened that fabric around the body by adjusting it to the waist with laces, rolled fabrics, belts or picked it up by brooches.

The Peplo

The peplo, was a large rectangular piece of fabric that remained like a tunic with many folds, snug at the waist.

Short Peplo
Peplo Shorts
Long Peplo
Long Peplo
Some are trimmed on all four sides and others have embroidered stripes. They had no seams and no hems were made either.






















The Chiton

It was a male garment.

The Chiton
The Chiton
It was made up of two rectangular pieces. The length should be the same as the height of the person concerned and the width should reach the elbow if it was narrow or to the fingers if it was wider.

It had an opening at the top where the head.












The Himation

The Himation
The Hymation

It was what we can call mantle today.

It was very fashionable, as they used it much hooked under the armpit, and then fell on one of the shoulders.

The fabric was placed in the reverse direction of the length of the body, forming another type of folds.



















Calyptra

It was a veil that women used to wear over their heads as an ornament.

Fibula

It was the name given to the brooches with which the fabrics were held on their shoulders.

por Mirta Fernandez