Thursday, December 26, 2013

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Clothing)

Egypt is a very warm country which means the Egyptians wore very few clothes. The fabric that most of the cloths were made of was linen and sometimes they imported silk, cotton, and wool. 
Women wore long thin dresses, and at festivities they wore head dresses and some head dresses had scented fat that melted in the sun (this made them smell nice).

Both women and men shaved their heads because the weather was to warm and then they wore wigs.
Men wore wrapped skirts that varied in length depending on the time of year and the fashion of time.
Children did not wear any clothes until they were about six years old and then they wore the same clothes as women and men.

Footwear: the Egyptians wore mostly sandals or bare feet. The sandals where made from various sources- Papyrus and wood (bark), and the richest wore gold sandals. 

Makeup/Jewellery was common in Egypt and showed wealth

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