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Fashion & Dress in Ancient Mesopotamia
Fashion and dress in Mesopotamia – clothing, footwear, and accessories – was not only functional but defined one's social status and developed from a simple loincloth in the Ubaid Period (c. 5000-4100 BCE) to brightly colored robes and dresses...

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Fashion & Dress in Ancient Egypt
Fashion in ancient Egypt epitomized the concept of simplicity and ease in movement and remained relatively unchanged in this regard for over 3,000 years. Clothing and footwear differed in ornamentation between the upper and lower classes...

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Woman in a Green Dress by Monet
An 1866 oil on canvas, Woman in a Green Dress (aka Camille in a Green Dress), by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. This work was accepted by the Paris Salon and was well received by the critics for mixing the traditional...

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Greek Peplos Dress
A Roman period statue of possibly Kore-Persephone, the daughter of Demeter. The head in fact is restored after a head of Apollo. She is sculpted in the style of 5th century BCE Greek statues and is wearing a peplum, a common type of Greek...

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Egyptian Beadnet Dress (Detail)
Egyptian beadnet dress from the reign of Khufu, 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom of Egypt, 2551-2528 BCE. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of a garment with the lozenge pattern. This pattern is frequently used when depicting...

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Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress
Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress, painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783. This painting was criticized for depicting a queen in informal attire. Hesse House Foundation, collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten...

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Elizabethan Lady in Farthingale Dress.
A portrait of Elizabeth Howard, Lady Southwell (c.1564 – 1646), an English Elizabethan lady wearing a farthingale dress with its distinctive protruding waist created by a padded roll and inserted wooden hoops. By an unknown artist c. 1600...

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Seneca Man in Traditional Dress
A representation of a Seneca man in traditional dress, illustration from 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).

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Cheyenne Hide Dress c. 1920
Cheyenne beaded hide dress c. 1920.
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

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Seneca Woman in Traditional Dress
A representation of a Seneca woman in traditional dress from the 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).