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Haute Couture from Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations at Hellenic Museum Greek Reporter

The figure of the Minoan woman, with large breasts, large hips, and tiny waist, was very similar to the female shape that came into fashion during the late 1800s c.e., when women laced themselves into tight corsets to make their waists small and wore hoops under their skirts to increase the size of their bottom half.


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A minoan woman will wear what they wish to wear, and will dress accordingly. They will never have anything that they don't want to wear. To get any of the minoan women's clothes, it is necessary to have a decent dress, although they might not be very good at it. It is very important to have good body types for the clothes you want to wear.


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The Minoan women's clothing, as it appears from the description in Homer's Iliad, as well as the frescoes and figurines found in Knossos, consisted at least of the following, woolen or linen, garments. Colorful & Elaborated Skirts They were just like today. These skirts had pleats, ribbons, trimmings, and fringes.


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The Minoan women's clothing, as it appears from the description in Homer's Iliad, as well as the frescoes and figurines found in Knossos, consisted at least of the following, woolen or linen, garments. In Minoan Crete, women's clothing was made from a wide variety of materials, such as linen, leather, and wool.


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Revealing Minoan Fashion. Volume 53 Number 3, May/June 2000. by Bernice Jones. Little did I know at the age of six, when I announced to my mother that I was going to be an archaeologist, that I would spend more than 15 years trying to find out what Minoan women wore. My fascination with the subject began when, still an undergraduate, I was.


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The 'Ladies in Blue' fresco is a recreated fresco from the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete.It shows three women richly dressed and lavishly bejeweled depicted against a blue background. This fresco (or rather, fragments of it) was discovered during the excavation of the site by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur John Evans at the beginning of the 20th century.


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Chlamys - an outer garment used as a short cape or cloak, worn primarily by men Peplos - a garment worn mainly by women over a chiton or instead of one Epiblema - a shawl worn over a chiton or peplos by both men and women Himation - a larger outer garment worn as a long cape or cloak by both sexes


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Women's Clothing. In the Protopalatial Period (1900-1700 b.c.e.), women wore long skirts with girdles circling the waist twice and tied, with their ends hanging down in front. Bodices left the breasts bare and the costumes had collars which rose to a high peak at the back of the neck.


The Stream of Time The Minoans Fashion

Chapter 1 Haute Couture in the Bronze Age: A History of Minoan Female Costumes from Thera Marie-Louise B. Nosch In this chapter, the author presents some of the female costumes from Minoan Santorini and uses recent scholarly contributions as the basis of her discussion on the Bronze Age technology available for the manufacture of these costumes.


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The Minoan flounced skirt derived from Near Eastern models worn by priestesses and goddesses, possibly identifying the Minoan wearers of equivalent rank. Reflections of Minoan costume appear at Mycenaean palaces until their destruction in LHIIIB. At that time, an indigenous Mycenaean dress design with a high, horizontal neckline appeared.


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Ancient Minoan fashion emphasized feminine beauty by cinching the waist to create a more hourglass-like shape and braiding long hair into large sections that resulted in thick, chunky braids. Minoan men's fashion usually left them underdressed by today's standards but they wore jewelry that emphasized their powerful muscles.


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Just as women did, men wore a cloak on top. Minoan men had beautiful, long, curly hair. In general, Minoan clothing culture was completely about swirling, curvilinear, sinuous shapes. (c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3pYiSD04g Details Category: Greece Published: 20 September 2019 Hits: 30290 Add comment


The Adorants. The Minoan fresco of a woman elaborately dressed indicate the social status. In

Minoan Women's Dress--Description. Women's skirts had a basic bell-shape with at least three different variations in form: smooth, with a series of ruffles, or of uncertain cut. The smooth form was fitted at the waist and flared gently to the ground. The ruffle style consisted of several succeeding layers of ruffles gradually increasing in.


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Cretan women's clothing included the first sewn garments known to history. Wool and flax were used. Fabrics were embroidered, and crimson was used for most of the dyeing. With increasing affluence, the dresses grew long and low-necked, with the bodice being open almost to the waist, leaving the breasts exposed.


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The characteristic of the female garment in ancient Egypt Old Kingdom was a short skirt for the lower classes, or a kalasiris, a longer skirt reaching from the ankles to just below, or just above the breasts. [8]


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Friday, April 10, 2015 The Minoans: Fashion Left: Reproduction of the Ladies in Blue fresco from Knossos. Center: Priest King fresco restored. Right: reproduction of a woman carrying an ivory pyxis from Tiryns Minoan male and female dress, from mir-kostuma.com The most spectacular scenes of the daily lives of Minoans is seen in their fresco art.