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Describe the male and female costumes of byzantine period

Answer 1

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Describe the male costumes of byzantine period=From the beginning of the Byzantine Empire a Roman toga was still used as a dress for formal and for official occasions. In Justinian time dress is changed into the tunica or long chitons, which were worn by both sexes. ... Tunics were worn as undergarments by every class.

Describe the female costumes of byzantine period=In the early stages of the Byzantine Empire the traditional Roman toga was still used as very formal or official dress. ... In general, except for military and presumably riding-dress, men of higher status, and all women, had clothes that came down to the ankles, or nearly so.

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Answer 2

Byzantine dress was very conservative under the influence of the Christian view that the body was not beautiful but sin. The Byzantines liked color and pattern and made and exported very richly patterned cloth. One of the most famous fabrics of that time and place was Byzantine silk which was woven and embroidered for the upper classes and resist-dyed and printed for the lower.