Greek Clothes

Greek men mostly wore a tunic, a sort of knee-length t-shirt made of wool or linen. Over the tunic they wore a wool cloak if it was cold out, which they could also use as a blanket if they needed to. Their legs were bare, and they wore leather sandals when they weren't barefoot. But many men went barefoot their whole lives. Greek women wore one large piece of wool or linen, wrapped around them and pinned in various ways to make it stay. The ways of pinning it changed over time. One way was to fold the cloth in half, and put it so that the fold in the cloth came under your right armpit and down your right side. Then pull up on the front and the back of the cloth so they meet over your right shoulder and pin the front and the back together with a big safety pin. Then pull more of the front up over your left shoulder, and pin it to the back in the same way. Finally you will notice that your dress is still open all along your left side: tie a belt around your dress at the waist to keep your dress closed. These dresses always came down to their ankles. When it was cold, women also had long wool cloaks/blankets to keep them warm.
Clothing was very expensive in the ancient and medieval world, because without engine-powered machines it was very hard to make. Most people therefore had very few changes of clothing; many people probably owned only the clothes they were wearing. Many children had no clothes at all. In the Stone Age most clothing was made of leather or fur, or woven grasses. By the Bronze Age people had learned to spin yarn on a spindle and to weave cloth out of the yarn on looms. Although many clothes, especially coats, were still made out of leather or fur, most clothes were made out of wool or linen. Some clothes, especially in India, were made of cotton, and some rich people wore silk. In the Middle Age, the spinning wheel was invented, which made spinning yarn go about four times as fast. Clothes were a little less expensive than they had been before, but still most people had only one or two outfits.
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