Did ancient Greece people wear cloaks to keep themselves warm?

Question

I'm doing a social studies project and im making a model of an ancient greece person. Any ideas of anything to add to it?

Answer 1

The basic girded chiton comes to mind.

Recall they're geographically Medterranean, and to borrow a currently popular political buzz-phrase, were going through a cycle of "global warming" prior the last little ice age. So the skimpier, easy to wear clothing was to keep cooler.

Yes a simple cape might be worn about the shoulders to ward off a damp evening breeze outdoors. I suppose you could pretend you're at Port Aransas. The poster above mentioned clasping a cape above the right shoulder, but logic makes me think of keeping a sword or weapons-arm free, so I dunno.

Your fabric should be lightweight weave but have sufficient weight to drape nicely.

Answer 2

Yes, the used a long cape to put over their toga when it was cold, but remember, this is Greece and is a lot warmer than most other areas of western or northern Europe. The appropriate garment to put on top of the toga would be a long cloak, with a clasp at the neck.

Answer 3

Partly to keep warm, but mostly for modesty as they didn't wear underwear in those days. They also wore sandals, If I were you I would look up Greek costumes and dress on a search site like, Yahoo or Google They wore Togas not cloaks

Answer 4

Aren't togas awfully cloak like?

Google some pictures of Alexander the Great. Seems to me they depict him wearing some sort of cloak.

The Mediterranean isn't known for its cold temperatures.

Answer 5

From classical times the chief garment was the chiton, a type of tunic made from one or two pieces of material hanging back and front, pinned on one or both shoulders, and girded. For men the chiton was usually knee-length and seamed up one or both sides. An ankle-length version was worn by women and for more formal wear by men. The simplest type of chiton was sleeveless, but later a sleeved version was made possible by using a much wider piece of material pinned at intervals at shoulder level, creating an elbow-length wide sleeve. A variation on the chiton style for both sexes was achieved by wearing a double girdle, one at waist level and one around the hips, the material being bloused out in between.

The peplos was a woman's garment. Made of one or two pieces of fabric, it hung from the shoulder pins to above or below the waist girdle. Alternatively, women used a longer piece of the chiton material and folded it over in front to hang in a similar manner.

There were two chief forms of cloak or wrap. The smaller one--the chlamys--was of dark wool and was worn pinned on one shoulder, usually leaving the right arm free. The larger wrap was the himation, worn by both sexes. Draped in many different ways, it covered the body and could be drawn up over the head. In sculpture, philosophers and statesmen are commonly depicted wearing the himation.

Knowledge of underwear is limited. Literary sources tell of a linen girdle worn to control the female figure and of a band to delineate the breasts. Men wore a loincloth.

Men's hair was long in the early years, but later it was cut short and carefully curled. Bleach was often used to make the hair fashionably blond; perfumes and pomades were applied. Beards were common until the time of Alexander. Most men were bareheaded, a hat being reserved for bad weather. There was a low-crowned, broad-brimmed style--the petasos--and a brimless cap, the pilos. Women's hair was long; it was usually curled and waved on the forehead and sides and drawn to a chignon at the nape. Many women wore wigs of different shades and decorated their coiffure with flowers, jewels, and fillets. They draped the head with the cloak and, in the Hellenistic period, sometimes perched a straw hat on top.

Both sexes went barefoot indoors but outside wore leather sandals. Men also wore boots, which were laced up the front and might be fur-lined.

Greek jewelry was very fine and was, especially in the later centuries, worn in abundance. Both sexes used perfume, and women employed extensive makeup to give brilliance to their eyes, lashes, and cheeks.

Answer 6

They are not called Greece people, they are called Greeks.

Answer 7

no they didn't wear cloths to be warm, they were in the Mediterranean, all Greeks wear bears