Terms - beggining through the northern rennaisance Flashcards
clothing
wearing apparel
dress
includes garments and aspects of personal appearance that can be changed
costume
used as a synonym for dress by scholar who study historic dress and work in the field (so: includes garments and aspects of personal appearance that can be changed)
style
the predominate form of dress in a given period and/or culture
fashion
styles of a fixed duration
silhouette
the basic shape of clothing and dress
schenti
Male - Ancient Egypt
basic garment of the egyptian nobleman - a loincloth wrapped around in a skirtlike fashion sometimes with pleats.
apron
males - ancient egypt
starched ornamental kilt which fell just above the knees and was held by a sash.
pastiche
Unisex - ancient egypt
fake beard
Ionic Chiton
unisex - ancient greece
rectangular fabric that was pinned down the arms and usually closed at one side. girdled.
Doric Chiton
unisex - ancient greece
rectangular fabric with no fold on the top. pinned at shoulers and opened to one side. girdled.
Perizoma
men (but sometimes women) - ancient greece
loincloth
Himation
unisex - ancient greek
similar to a roman toga. a rectaunglar shawl that was wrapped around the shoulders.
chlamys
men/boys - ancient greece
short cloak
diplax
female - ancient greece
small rectangle of fabric worn over a ionic chiton
chlamydon
female - ancient greece
complicated form of the diplax
petasos
men - ancient greece
brimmed hat that men wore with the chlamys
subligaria
women - ancient rome
loincloth worn by women
strophium
women - ancient rome
breast support for women
palla
women - ancient rome
similar to the himation worn over an outer tunic and was draped like a toga, pulled across the shoulder, or worn like a veil
stola
female - ancient rome
garment for free married women. long sleeveless gown usually held by clips at the shoulder
vitta
female - ancient rome
woolen band to bind hair. simply a band circling the head
tutulus
women - ancient rome
hairstyle worn by women in rome whe they became mater familias
toga
men mostly but worn by women who had been divorced on the grounds of adultery - ancient rome
a peice of cloth that would be wrapped around the entire body except for the right arm
tunic
unisex - egypt, greece, and rome
a t shaped garment that was long and loose fitting
toga pura
male - imperial period rome
toga with a tunic
toga praetexta
toga candida
toga pulla
toga picta
toga trabea
paludamentum
male - byzantine
cloak variation
dalmatic
male - byzantine
shorter tunic worn over a regular tunic
tunica
male - byzantine
replaces toga as the principle body covering. wo rectangular pieces of fabric, one set on top of the other. It was sewn together at the sides and the top, with holes left for the head and the arms.
tablon
male - byzantine
full length semicircular mantle worn by church and byzantine emperors
cote
unisex - early middle ages
tightly fitting tunic for lower class women and men. primary
coif
unisex - early middle ages
a small white cap worn on the head that covered the skull
braies
men - early middle ages
underdrawers that tied at the waist with a belt
hose
men - early middle ages
basically tights. sometimes went up to the waist or thig and could tie into other pieces.
open mantle
unisex - early middle ages
a single piece of draped fabric that goes over the shoulder