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ardatli:

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Costume. Chitons.

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Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

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Wait, wait\u2026. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

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that genuinely is it

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yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

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lets bring back sheetwares

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When you\u2019re carding, spinning and weaving everything from scratch, using the big squares exactly as they come off the loom must seem like a fucking brilliant\u00a0idea. 90% (or more) of pre-14th century clothing is made purely on squares (and sometimes triangles cut from squares).\u00a0

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How did they get the fabric so fine it draped like that? Was that something medieval europe forgot? Or do I just have a completely misguided image of historical clothing?

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Medieval Europe also had incredibly fine weaves, though the ancient world tended to have them beat. Linen was found in Egypt woven with a fineness that we\u2019re still trying to replicate, and there was a kind of cotton woven in India called\u00a0\u2018woven wind\u2019 that was supposedly still translucent at eight layers, and wool shawls so fine that the entire thing could be drawn through a wedding ring.\u00a0

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The way they could get away with pinking and slashing doublets in the 16th century was partially because the fabrics were so tightly woven that you could simply cut a line on the bias and nothing would fray.\u00a0

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Modern fabric machining sucks ass in terms of giving us any kind of quality like the kind human beings produced prior to the Industrial Revolution.\u00a0

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*yells about textile history*

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