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    Byzantine men and women wore elaborate, decorated clothing made of materials like silk, velvet, and brocade. Men's outer garments included tunics, dalmatics, and cloaks like the paludamentum and himation. Women wore high-necked, long-sleeved dresses called stolas along with shawls and cloaks. Both sexes decorated their clothing with stripes, embroidery, and jewelry. Their hairstyles, headdresses, footwear, and accessories also varied by social class and occasion.

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    Byzantine men and women wore elaborate, decorated clothing made of materials like silk, velvet, and brocade. Men's outer garments included tunics, dalmatics, and cloaks like the paludamentum and himation. Women wore high-necked, long-sleeved dresses called stolas along with shawls and cloaks. Both sexes decorated their clothing with stripes, embroidery, and jewelry. Their hairstyles, headdresses, footwear, and accessories also varied by social class and occasion.

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    Byzantine men and women wore elaborate, decorated clothing made of materials like silk, velvet, and brocade. Men's outer garments included tunics, dalmatics, and cloaks like the paludamentum and himation. Women wore high-necked, long-sleeved dresses called stolas along with shawls and cloaks. Both sexes decorated their clothing with stripes, embroidery, and jewelry. Their hairstyles, headdresses, footwear, and accessories also varied by social class and occasion.

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    Byzantine men and women wore elaborate, decorated clothing made of materials like silk, velvet, and brocade. Men's outer garments included tunics, dalmatics, and cloaks like the paludamentum and himation. Women wore high-necked, long-sleeved dresses called stolas along with shawls and cloaks. Both sexes decorated their clothing with stripes, embroidery, and jewelry. Their hairstyles, headdresses, footwear, and accessories also varied by social class and occasion.

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    BYZANTIUM

    MEN :- outer upper

    • Sleeve and garments cut in one


    • Sleeved Dalmatica belted below waistline or about
    hip - at first
    • Then worn over tunica – high neckline with slit
    down front length to below knee or to instep.
    MEN :- outer upper

    Segmentum
    Colobium- similar to greek
    Decoration worn on sleeve or
    kolobus made of wool/linen
    tunic/dalmatica, embroidered
    MEN :- outer upper

    Tunica talaris- long sleeved, Tunica palmata- Purple and gold


    long girded tunica embroidered ceremonial tunica
    MEN :- outer upper
    • Tunica with decoration at neckline – middle class – 5&6
    centuries
    • Simple tunic buttoned at neck and belted – middle class

    Latus clavus-
    stripes about 3
    inches wide

    Angustus clavus- purple or red


    stripes about 1and a half inch.
    MEN :- outer lower

    Hosa – hose/covering for leg Bracco/braies – former loose-fitting


    leg covering or hose later close-
    fitting with/without cross gathering
    MEN :- outer lower

    Drawers/ Trousers – leg covering resembling national cotumes


    worn by medes, persians, parthians and phrygians.
    MEN :- under

    Chemise – undergarment with long sleeve that showed beneath


    sleeve of outer garment.
    MEN :- Cloaks and Over garments

    Toga - Long piece of fabric draped over the shoulders in


    one of several ways. It was usually worn over some kind
    of tunic or other undergarment.
    MEN :- Cloaks and Over garments

    Toga picta - official robe of emperor purple toga of fine woolen


    fabric.
    MEN :- cloaks and overgarments

    Tablion- very elaborate


    oblong decoration
    embroidered in red and
    gold on the back and front
    of paludamentum

    Paludamentum- mantle/rich material.


    MEN :- cloaks and overgarments

    Semi circular cloak.


    MEN :- cloaks and overgarments

    Abolla .
    Red or rectangular military cloak
    Chasuble- round/oval shaped
    resembling chlamys made of silk.
    garment with a hole for the head
    MEN :- cloaks and overgarments

    Pallium.
    Himation of
    greeks (mantle)
    Cape/ cope.
    MEN :- Hair
    • Cut medium short and brushed
    away from crown of head
    • Bob.
    • Hair at the back often long and
    turned under
    • Beard rare before 9th century
    • Neatly trimmed beard and
    moustache after 9th century
    • Tonsure – manner of shaving the
    head as a mark of order
    MEN :-
    Headdress
    • Petasus, cucullus, phrygian cap.
    • Cowl – hood of a monks gown
    attached to the back of the collar.
    • Fillet/gold circlet.
    • Diadem of double strands of
    pearls and a jewel
    • Low metal circlet- developing
    into crown with ropes of pearl
    hanging over each ear.
    • Imperial crown about 5” high.
    MEN :- footwear

    • Openwork red boot.


    • Sandal with buckle at ankle
    • Slipper with toe pointed
    • Real shoe of soft fabric/leather
    • Heelless
    • Boot
    • Hose and shoes with ankle strap
    • Tall red leather boot
    MEN :- footwear

    Pedule – short hose usually turned down at knee


    MEN :- Accessories

    Reliquary – pendant of
    Sudarium – hand kerchief- gold/enamel containing a
    silk and gold embroided. relic
    MEN :- Accessories

    Stola

    lorum – long narrow scarf


    MEN :- Accessories
    • Mappa –large piece of cloth used to
    give signal for games/ used as table
    napkin
    • Scepter – ornamentated staff – stick
    • Knife
    • Glove of fur/leather
    • Pouch/wallet
    • Waist belt of gold
    • Orb – celestial sphere often
    sumounted by a cross.
    MEN :- Jewellery
    • Heavy jewelled collar
    • Earring
    • Finger rings
    • Brooch
    • Filigree decoration
    • Gold, emerald, ruby, sapphire,
    diamond, pearls etc.
    MEN :- Typical colours
    • Black
    • Grey
    • White
    • Brown
    • Green
    • Blue
    • Red
    • Plum violet
    • Royal purple – emperor and subjects
    • Coloured circular decoration on top of each sleeve
    • White pedule by lower class
    MEN :- Typical materials
    • Cloth of silk
    • Velvet
    • Tapestry
    • Brocade
    • Cloth with embroidery
    • Linen
    • Wool
    • Cotton
    • Complex weaving stylized pattern
    MEN :- Typical materials

    Taffeta – stiff silk cloth used Sarcenet – fine thin silk cloth
    as lining of rich mantle. originating in the orient
    MEN :- Typical materials

    Damask – silk or linen cloth with a figured satin weave

    Make- up
    None
    WOMEN :- Outer Upper & outer lower

    Stola – (traditional garment of roman women resembling


    toga/pallium worn by Men) high neckline, tight, long
    sleeve
    WOMEN :- Outer Upper & outer lower
    • Sleeve and body of dress cut in one
    • Fitted and unbelted
    • Augustus clavus
    • Latus clavus
    • Dalmatica
    • Tunica worn under dalmatica
    • One or more stolas – worn with
    knee length palla (shawl)
    • Sleevless overgarment reaching to
    knee and girded with jewelled belt
    • Wide-sleeved tunic over close
    fitting sleeves.
    Under
    • High- necked, long sleeved chemise
    (undergarment with long sleeves)
    • Visible beneath tunic/white stola

    Cloaks and overgarments

    Palla – shawl like garment


    Cloaks and overgarments

    • Small scarf
    • Rectangular shawl
    • Cape/chasuble (round/oval
    in shape, with a hole for the
    neck)
    • Semi-circular cloak fastened
    on right shoulder.
    • Hooded cloak
    Hair

    • Hairdress resembling that of roman women


    • Hair often covered by turban
    • Two long braids with an extra lock braided closely
    behind the ear.
    • Metal ornaments and pearls as decoration
    • Rolled pompadour (women hairstyle in which the hair is
    turned back off the forehead in a roll
    • Sometimes frizzed- small, tight curls
    Headdress
    • Oriental (of a pearl/other jewel) type of headdress
    • A circular roll over skull cap
    • Large rectangular veil
    • Veil hang from jewelled band around head
    • Hair concealed by turban- colour according to caste.
    • Diadem
    • Veil secured by fillet
    • Chinese influence in hats
    • Hair ornaments oriental in style
    • Triangular shaped gold, net/ white veil.
    • White cap worn by lower class
    Headdress
    Footwear

    • Similar to that worn by men


    • Slipper
    • Transition between sandal and shoes.
    • Red shoe worn by women of high rank.
    • Real shoes
    • Low cut shoes with strap over ankle
    Accessories

    • Sash over dalmatica.


    • Sudarium carried in left hand

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