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Clothes and cleanliness
Remember that summers were hot, but winters cool or cold. So in summer it made sense to wear lightweight linen clothes, while wool was more suitable in winter.
All but the most wealthy made their own clothes, consisting of a simple tunic (called a cHiton) and a draped cloak, or Himation (picture 4).
A peplos was a tubular garment, often worn over a chiton and fastened by pins at the shoulders.
Both men and women wore basically the same style. The women spun and then wove the cloth. They then bleached the material to make it white, and finally dyed it using natural dyes (usually indigo, madder or saffron) to match the colours of their home state.
The Greeks also wore hats, using them while travelling to keep the sunshine away. They were held on with a chinstrap and could hang down the back when not needed.
It was quite common to walk about barefoot. For travelling, people wore
thin sandals.
People kept clean by a mixture of
scraping their bodies with a dull metal blade and by applying perfumes they made by boiling up flowers and scented leaves.
A himation was a kind of cloak. It was a rectangle of wool with weighted corners, slung over the left shoulder, leaving the right arm free. It was worn by men and women. It also served as a blanket. The colours were mostly white, natural, browns, and black.
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(Greeks believed that a pale complexion was a sign of beauty and so they tried not to become too suntanned.)