Adorning the body
Caleb Cotronis
How did they make the clothing and how did they dress?
- Men wore a shirt that was made of a soft linen from plant fibers flax
- Men also wore a length of cloth that rapped around the man’s waist
- Women wore long skirts or sleeveless dresses sometimes topped by a square cloth used as a shawl
- The wealthy people wore the same stuff as the peasants but made of a better cloth
- Wealthy people could also afford dyes so their clothes would be a gold or yellow color.
- Why did everyone wear jewelry?
- Decorative and magical purposes
- Some worn as amulets or charms were believed to protect the wearer from harm
- Gold and semiprecious stones such as carnelian, lapis lazuli, and turquoise were used to create very valuable pieces
- Egyptians wore Earrings, broad collars with strands of beads, pectorals on chest, bracelets, armbands, rings and anklets.
How did they wear their hair?
- Dyed hair red from henna made from powered leaf plants
- Cut hair very short or shaved off
- Wealthy people owned wigs made from human hair
- As added adornment people tied cones of scented animal fat or perfumed pomades to their wigs
- Fat would slide down the wig giving off an attractive scent
What cosmetics did they wear?
- perfumed oils to soften the skin and keep it from burning and cracking hot climate
- Colored eyelids with a green substance made from a soft stone called malachite
- They outlined eye with black kohl a substance of lead ore mixed with water they wore this to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun and make the eyes look bigger it also help the wearer not get diseases
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