Toga Costume

This meticulously researched and profusely illustrated book includes 315 drawings based on renderings by artists of the period to achieve utmost accuracy and authenticity. Included are elaborate examples of Aegean costume, Doric and Ionic styles of dress for women, Greek and Roman armor, graceful and intricately arranged Roman togas, the tunica -- a roomy wide-sleeved garment -- and the pallium, a cloak-like garment. Ornate vestments of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Byzantine costumes are carefully described and portrayed as are styles of hairdressing, jewelry, and other decorative elements. Instructions and flat patterns showing the cut of sample garments make it easy for costume designers to reproduce period apparel. An excellent reference for the history classroom, this volume will be invaluable to costume historians and art students interested in the development of representative art.

This latest addition to Dover's popular "History of Costume" paper doll series focuses on fashions of the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 395-1453), which melded Roman garb with the luxurious fabrics and styles of the East. Two dolls -- Justinian and Theodora -- model 16 costumes, including togas, cloaks, Persian-styled pantaloons, robes, tunics, stoles, and more. Elaborate headdresses, shoes with pointed toes, and girdles of gold complete their sumptuous wardrobes.

Toga party - A popular fad on American college campuses in the 1960s, a toga party is a particular kind of costume party at which everyone wears a toga, or a semblance thereof, normally made from a bedsheet. The toga party concept originated within the fraternity, or "Greek" campus culture, hence the costume.

Costume party - A costume party (chiefly the US English term) or a fancy dress party (the more common British or Commonwealth English term), mainly in contemporary Western culture is a type of party where guests dress up in a costume. These are especially popular in the United States around Halloween, when teenagers and adults who may be considered too old for trick-or-treating attend a costume party instead.

National costume - National costume (also known as national dress, regional costume or folk dress) expresses an identity through costume which usually relates to a geographic area, but can also indicate social, marital and/or religious status. Such costumes often come in two forms: one for everyday occasions, the other for festivals and formal wear.

Welsh costume - The national costume of Wales is usually thought of as the traditional woman's costume of a red cloak and a tall black hat. This form of the costume was developed in the 19th century, during a revival of Welsh culture, mainly by Lady Llanover.

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