Egyptian Trends Even In Black Dresses

Egyptian would even wear black dresses. The varieties used were not many fabrics, linen was established as the raw material from which, depending on its thickness, it gave off different grades, royal linen, a linen embossed developed more (subtle fine), another with mild reliefs (subtle) and, finally, the flat linen. The main color was white. Wool was also a genre widely used, it served for the manufacture of warm clothes and hunting. Among other genera used, should also be mentioned silk, in the Ptolemaic and cotton, and with the coming of the Arabs in the area.

Old kingdom styles

In the Old Kingdom, men used a kind of skirt kilt call that was made from a fabric whose ends were tied back at the height of the hip, and whose length is extended to the knees. Usually, the kilt was taking the body, a characteristic that set him apart from work clothes or peasantry that was released.

The female black dresses were also a piece of genre, it covered the whole body in shape envelope: from the armpits to the ankles, which strips on the sides and tied back, covering her breasts.
As mentioned, the background color was white, but when the genre began to be worked over, added the black, with shapes that were made which served as an ornament for collars and sleeves. From the Middle Kingdom, the male skirt began to be longer and more sensual female attire and suggestive, the breasts were directly exposed.

Sometime later, during the New Kingdom, the fitting clothing of women in underwear becomes. This is when robes knotted linen superimposed on the semi transparent appeared including folds and black. Both slaves as workers in the lower castes, they wore only a linen cap tails as a slip or, failing that, went naked.

Accessories

Among the important black dresses accessories, wigs were a key element. The Egyptian custom, both men and women, was shaving the whole body, including the head. The wig was an ornament more, and sometimes element of deception in limp, braided and curled for women, whose purpose was erotic.
While at the beginning of the empire will find them short, to the New Kingdom, used longer. The feet were covered with sandals made of palm leaf (or palm), reed or papyrus. As noted at the outset both the raw material as black dresses were subordinated to the high temperatures, making it necessary that these were light and fresh.