Roman Clothing and Fashion

Roman Clothing and Fashion
Author: Alexandra Croom
Publsiher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781445612447

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A detailed, finely researched and profusely illustrated history of clothing and fashion in the Roman Empire.

Dress and the Roman Woman

Dress and the Roman Woman
Author: Kelly Olson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781134121205

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In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about the nature of women. However, Kelly Olson uses literary evidence to argue that women often took pleasure in fashioning themselves, and many treated adornment as a significant activity, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. This study makes an important contribution to our knowledge of Roman women and is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Roman life.

Greek and Roman Fashions

Greek and Roman Fashions
Author: Tom Tierney
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2013-07-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486415475

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Outlines the clothing styles worn by the people of the ancient Mediterranean.

Ancient Roman Clothes

Ancient Roman Clothes
Author: Paul Harrison
Publsiher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1615323082

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An introduction to the clothes that ancient Romans wore.

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture
Author: Jonathan Edmondson,Alison Keith
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2009-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781442691896

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Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, a focus that previous studies have overlooked or dealt with only in passing. Another unique aspect of this collection is that it goes beyond the male elite to address a wider spectrum of Roman society. Chapters deal with such topics as masculine attire, strategies for self-expression for Roman women within a dress code prescribed by a patriarchal culture, and the complex dynamics of dress in imperial Roman culture, both literary and artistic. This volume further investigates the literary, legal, and iconographic evidence to provide anthropologically-informed readings of Roman clothing. This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.

The World of Roman Costume

The World of Roman Costume
Author: Judith Lynn Sebesta,Larissa Bonfante
Publsiher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0299138542

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Thirteen scholarly and well-illustrated essays survey, document and elucidate over a thousand years of Roman garments and accessories, including Etruscan influences, Near Eastern fashions and the transition towards early Christian garb.

Costumes of the Greeks and Romans

Costumes of the Greeks and Romans
Author: Thomas Hope
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-02-27
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780486137315

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Carefully copied from ancient vases and statuary, these early-19th-century classic line renderings combine unusual clarity of style with unquestioned authenticity. Over 700 illustrations depict all classes and occupations.

Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z

Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
Author: Liza Cleland,Glenys Davies,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781134589159

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First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.