Ancient Greek and Roman costumes, the similarities and differences in clothing?

A, Greek clothing and Roman clothing contact:

Roman culture is y influenced by Greek culture, in clothing, many places borrowed from the free form of Greek clothing, but also formed their own characteristics. The Roman "toga" was developed on the basis of the ancient Greek "Simashen".

Second, the difference between Greek and Roman clothing:

One is that the Greeks and Romans in dealing with the shape of the clothing has obvious differences. The former used rectangular block cloth, the pursuit of a slender feeling; the latter used a beveled edge of nearly semicircular block cloth, to achieve the effect of an expansion of the dress effect and the Roman monumental architecture.

Secondly, there are also differences between the Greek and Roman styles in the winding method of clothing.

Greek clothing is folded and fixed in a certain way, and then let nature drape over the human body, because the Greeks know how to appreciate the beauty of the human body, know how to deal with the relationship between clothing and the human body in accordance with certain purposes.

And the Roman clothing is wrapped in a semi-circular straight line first folded up along the left shoulder down, through the left shoulder tends to the back, and then from the right shoulder down to the left arm, forming a pendant semi-circular pleats tucked clothing.

This huge, elaborate and multi-layered winding makes people feel very cumbersome, but the Romans used to show the majesty and prosperity of the empire, that semi-circular pleated coat is a symbol of honor of the Roman citizens.

This shows that the object of Roman aesthetics is clothing, not people themselves, from the point of view of the design is to ignore the organic relationship between clothing and the human body.

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I. Characteristics of Greek clothing:

1, due to the frequent wars, the Greeks attached great importance to exercise, not to be ashamed of nudity, and respect for the human self.

2, in the dress is not used to distinguish between body and status, simple style without any excessive modification. Do not use ornate and complex to show authority, clothing tends to be homogenized.

3, men's and women's clothing is not strictly differentiated, to the natural form of the body package. A simple and simple rectangular fabric, without any cutting, on the human body draped, thus shaping a beautiful hanging wave of folds with a loose clothing form.

4, highlighting the body's shoulders, abdomen, limbs exposed. Although the fabric is heavy, but can not hide the feeling of the human body as a whole, so it is called "invisible shape" of the dress.

The basic style of the ancient Greeks for the Hiton and Hima pure. Among them, the Hiton was the common dress of the ancient Greeks.

Second, the characteristics of Roman clothing:

1, the Romans were culturally influenced by ancient Greece, borrowed the free form of the Greek dress, the formation of a through the head of the shape of the undergarment and spacious tunic wrapped in the combination of the basic form.

2. The Romans were more interested in the transparency of the dress than the Greeks, and the loose-fitting became a major feature of the Roman dress.

3, in ancient Rome, clothing has become a symbol, become a distinction between the identity of the wearer.

4, Roman men's typical dress is toga (toga) women have stola (stole) pala (palh) in addition there is a kind of one-piece clothing to seek Nica (tunica) called underwear.

Three, the influence of Greek clothing on Western civilization

The long and brilliant ancient Greek civilization is generally regarded as the birthplace of Western civilization, greatly affecting the historical process of European civilization and spiritual development.

The romance, freedom and exuberance in the personality of ancient Greeks injected freshness, nobility and naturalness into their costumes, and their costumes and culture played an indelible role in the development of the traditional European costumes and the formation of the modern style of clothing.

Dana described the ancient Greek costumes in the book "Philosophy of Art": "These costumes can be taken off as soon as you raise your hand, and they are definitely not tightly wrapped around the body, but they can portray a rough outline", and the exposure of flesh was regarded as a kind of sanctity during the ancient Greek period.

Hegel even called this clothing "like a house in which one can walk freely". Simple, solemn, free and elegant, the formal characteristics of ancient Greek clothing, we can also see in the ancient Greek architecture.

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