Peplos

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A peplos (Ancient Greek: πέπλος) is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by c. 500 BC, during the late Archaic and Classical period. The peplos was a rectangular piece of woollen cloth that was folded loosely down one side (leaving the garment open down the other side) and pinned at both shoulders, then allowed to drape down around the body. The top third of the cloth could also be folded over to create an over-fold, called the apoptygma (ἀπόπτυγμα), with the shoulder fastenings at the top of this fold. A girdle or belt was used to fasten the garment at the waist and create another fold, to adjust its length for the height of the wearer. Variations of the peplos were worn by women in many periods such as the archaic, early classical, and classical periods of ancient Greece. It may be compared with the Ionic chiton, which was a piece of fabric folded over and sewn together along the longer side to form a tube. Spartan women continued to wear the...

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