Roman Clothing and Fashion
Title | Roman Clothing and Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Croom |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2010-09-15 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1445612445 |
A detailed, finely researched and profusely illustrated history of clothing and fashion in the Roman Empire.
Ancient Roman Clothes
Title | Ancient Roman Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Harrison |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781615323081 |
An introduction to the clothes that ancient Romans wore.
Dress and the Roman Woman
Title | Dress and the Roman Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Olson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2012-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134121202 |
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.
Costumes of the Greeks and Romans
Title | Costumes of the Greeks and Romans PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hope |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2013-02-27 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0486137317 |
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 Fashions
Title | Greek and Roman Fashions PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Tierney |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2013-07-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0486415473 |
Outlines the clothing styles worn by the people of the ancient Mediterranean.
The World of Roman Costume
Title | The World of Roman Costume PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Lynn Sebesta |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780299138547 |
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.
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Title | Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Wayland Barber |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1995-09-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0393285588 |
"A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book Review New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods—methods she herself helped to fashion. In a "brilliantly original book" (Katha Pollitt, Washington Post Book World), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.