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Identifier: ancientegyptiana00hous (find matches)
Title: Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian costumes and decorations
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Houston, Mary G. (Mary Galway), b. 1871 Hornblower, Florence S
Subjects: Costume Costume Costume
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black, limited
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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s and falling fullin front. Fig. 14, which dates a.d. 200, shows a Romanadaptation of the same costume. The figure wearsunderneath a long tunic, and over this, tightening it inat the waist, an Egyptian skirt; a small Egyptian scarfis knotted to the skirt in similar fashion to the costumein Fig. 15. All the garments worn by Fig. 14 arerectangular pieces of material; the tunic is two straightpieces of stuff sewn up the sides; the top edge isdivided into three parts by pinning; these openingsform the neck and arm-holes. Fig. 15 is a Greek costume of the fourth century B.C.in which the Egyptian influence is equally stronglymarked; in this case, again, the garments are all rect-^0 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME angular pieces of material, the sleeves in one with thetunic. To knot the cloak to the over-skirt, as shown inthis figure, the fullness of the over-skirt should bebunched up in one hand; the two corners of the cloakare taken in the other hand and twisted together roundthe skirt in a knot.
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Fig. 14 31 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME Plate X. Plate X. shows the fourth division of Egyptiancostume — namely, the Type of the Shawl orDrapery. Several varieties of this type are illustratedand described on pp. 33, 34, and 35.
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