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Historical Recreation - Clothing

Sites to aid with re-enactment society garb and costuming.
Roman Life Index
Sketches of Roman clothing for men and women with instructions for making them. Also accessories and hair styles.
Classical Recreation Societies
From your Guide. To learn about the past, why not re-live it via a society for re-enactment of your favorite period?
Dashing Persian Army
Simon Chew uses historical monuments to reconstruct seven full-color illustrations of military robes. Emphasis on purple and saffron.
Dawn of Time Crafts
Reproduction of armor, helmets, and costumes including several form Antiquity, including an Iron-age Celtic warrior, 5th century Frankish warrior, Germanic sandals, Roman belts.
Dress and Personal Adornment
Numbers of colors in dress denoted rank among the ancient Irish. Some men wore what we call stirrup pants. Men and women wore wool or flax undershirts. See also jewelry and the toilet.
Life in Antique Rome
What and how the Romans ate, social classes, dress of the citizen, hairstyles, birth control, and the layout of the Roman home.

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