Greek Dress: Did you mean...?

Warning: See the definitions of Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms before reading this article, otherwise the following lines could give you serious headaches! A lack of information is a common problem for historians of the Greco-Bactrian...

Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress, painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783. This painting was criticized for depicting a queen in informal attire. Hesse House Foundation, collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten...

A portrait of Elizabeth Howard, Lady Southwell (c.1564 – 1646), an English Elizabethan lady wearing a farthingale dress with its distinctive protruding waist created by a padded roll and inserted wooden hoops. By an unknown artist c. 1600...

Gold dress fastener from Clones, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, Late Bronze Age, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

A representation of a Seneca woman in traditional dress from the 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).

Maria Theresa in mourning dress, oil on canvas by Anton von Maron, 1773. For the last 15 years of her reign, Maria Theresa of Austria dressed only in mourning attire to grieve the death of her husband Francis I. Kunsthistorisches Museum...

A representation of a Seneca man in traditional dress, illustration from 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).

Cheyenne beaded hide dress c. 1920. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

Arapaho dress made from tanned leather, silk ribbon, and glass beads, c. 1940. Joe Grandee Collection, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City.

The ancient Greeks built open-air theatres where the public could watch the performances of Greek comedy, tragedy, and satyr plays. They then exported the idea to their colonies throughout the Aegean so that theatres became a typical feature...