Introduction
Some people will think that my passion is something that all girls love. But I love it more than the average girl and I have loved it ever since I was little. Fashion is my passion. Yeah surprising isn’t it? However, my reason for loving it is very different from everyone else’s.
I remember when I was in the sixth grade and we had to make an ancient Egyptian newspaper and everyone had to write one article. My article was about Ancient Egyptian fashions. I made it really funny. I looked up information on the topic and that’s just one of many stories. For example, when I was in the second grade though the fifth grade, every time we had art my favorite thing to draw would be people and the different fashions they would wear.
History: 19th Century. Is it a Do or a Don’t??
Since the 1800’s fashionable dress has become extremely popular. Women used to wear loose draped high waist gowns. They also wore thin garments with little underwear that they were not supposed to wear in the winter. So to keep warm, they wore a three-quarter-length_ over a dress and a lot of shawls, pelisses, and redingotes. A shawl is garment worn on the shoulder and a pelisse is a women’s long fitted coat or dress that open at the front is often trimmed with fur and a redingote is a belted women’s dress that opens at the front to show a petticoat or dress.
As the years went on the dresses had lots more colors and tighter waistlines. Also fuller, shorter, skirts, leg-of-mutton sleeves and brimmed hats were becoming more popular. A leg-of –mutton sleeve has the triangular shape of a leg-of-mutton; a dress with mutton sleeve and a brimmed hat is a hat with a projecting edge. The ensembles from the late 19th century was not easy to wear. They have these dresses for every occasion. They had ball dresses, opera dresses, dinner dresses, riding dresses, carriage dresses, house dresses, a house dress, evening dress, new-style dress, winter fashions, summer toilets, visiting toilets and other various dresses. The women’s dresses were mostly decorated with trimmings and laces.
My opinion
The type of fashions that I hate is 19th century women’s fashion. I would never wear what they had to wear back then. If I were in charge of fashion back then it would have been different than it was. And I definitely wouldn’t have mad them wear all those layers. Also the dresses wouldn’t have been o puffy.
Ancient Egypt women’s fashions Do or Don’t
History
Ancient Egyptians made their clothes out of linen, and wool. Their dresses where made of a rectangular piece of fabric folded once and sewn down the edge to make a tube. It would be a few inches above the ankles up to above their breast or above their breast. Some people think that the ancient Egyptian women clothing showed their breast and others think that it didn’t show their breast.
In the new kingdom a lot of people would wear shawls or saris. It was 4 feet wide and 13 to 14 feet long. A corner was tied to a cord around her waist on the left side. Pass the fabric length wise around the back, gather up son pleats and tuck them into a cord at the front. And pass the remainder around the front again, passing it under the left arm pit around the back again over the right shoulder and toss what remains back over the left shoulder, bringing it around and tie it to the end caught in the belt. (“Women’s Clothing and Fashion in Ancient Egypt”)
Ancient Egyptian shaved all the body hair off and wore wigs.
At their formal parties they would wear perfumed hats made of ox tallow. Guests would wear robes and servants mostly don’t wear anything.
My opinion
I believe that ancient Egyptian woman fashion cute. Because of the fact they fit the woman body to show curves but they are only a little revealing because of the heat in Egypt. Most people believe that the woman back then wore clothes the show their breast but I think that it couldn’t possibly have been designed that way. I think that ancient Egyptians had their neck short but not too short to reveal the woman’s body parts.
Bibliography
Seawright, Caroline. “Women in Ancient Egypt.”[Online] 18, Dec. 2006.www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/women.
“Ancient Egyptian social life.”[Online] 18, Dec. 2006.