Fashion Ancient Egypt
Weather of Egypt determines fashion colors and fabric and weather was instrumental in the making of clothes and accessories
Female clothing
Women wore long with very high waist skirts, like a long, tight dress, one piece, bound with two straps, which sometimes were broad and covered their breasts. They also wore a kind of short cloak covering their shoulders.
Women workers had broader clothes, some were naked.
Menswear
Men used a kind of skirt called faldellin that was made with a
fabric whose ends were knotted backwards, to hip height and
whose length is stretched knees.
Workers were naked or wore a light linen cloth as underpants.
The important men used to use a coat or saya around her shoulders to cover her body.
Children
Shoes
In everyday life men were barefoot and only in some special occasion, they wore sandals: when they had to go somewhere, they carried, sandals in hand, or tied to an their stick in order to put them on when reaching their destination.
MakeUp
Hairstyle
Men commonly shaved their heads to cover their heads, they used fake wigs and women a particular headdress (claft) that formed a square canvas, made with a striped fabric, adjusted to the forehead and fell to sides.
The nobles wore wig, common for both sexes, were the most commonly played for the head. It was made with hair and horsehair.
Jewelry
Egyptian Fashion Today
Nowadays, there are clothes, shoes and makeup inspired by Egyptian trends.