FASHION AND MYTHOLOGY IN ANCIENT GREECE

Among legendary characters and classical artworks, we discover what Greeks used to wear
Like Andromache, wife of Hector and a very beautiful woman,  there are many other characters from the Greek mythology that are meticulously described in their dresses and in their beauty and fashion. Ancient Greek people loved to enhance the physical perfection, the divine harmony and balance of the human being and the human body. We can mention the sculptures of Phidias, the Renaissance David by Michelangelo, that embodies the sensitiveness and the shapes ofAncient Greece, the stylistic and literary portraits of Aphrodite, Adonis, Calypso and Penelope in the Odyssey, until we reach the myth of Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche. Ancient Greeks, both men and women, used to wear the chiton (or chitone), a knee-length tunic for men, and an ankle-length tunic for women.

Sometimes men, too, used to wear the floor-length chiton, as we can see in the famous sculpture of Charioteer of Delphi. To keep it still, they used pins or clips, or a rope or a belt to wrap the waist. The experts can distinguish the Ionic chiton from the Doric one: the first was usually made of wool, and the latter of linen. For a while, people used to believe that Greeks only wore white clothes, or clothes of the natural colour of fiber: this mistake was due to the antique statues that have been brought to light during the Renaissance period, and that lost every trace of the possible paint. On the contrary, the clothes that were used were colourful and  diapered.

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