I'm sitting here hand-stitching a summer dress and realizing I could have just taken the fabric, pinned it at my shoulders, and worn it with a belt and it would have been just as cute...
I am consistently impressed with what can be done with a rectangle of cloth. These chiton look quite elegant, and it's just a rectangle draped, folded, and pinned. The sari of India and the pareo from the Pacific islands, and this probably before either of those... it's all really amazing.
the sari from India is a very ancient clothing and is not after these clothes. We can say they are contemporary or much older than these. Even today sari India's national dress.
Lucas Sebastião de Almeida Castro For all we know Neanderthal Man might have worn a form of drapery. But yeah, Greek and Indian seem to be the oldest forms still in existence.
+Lucas Sebastião de Almeida Castro may be you are correct my friend but as an Indian I know that women used to wear sari since vedic ages...anyways love wearing it
Thank you so much! This was hands down, the best tutorial I have seen thus far. Others show you the basics, then cut to the finished look without the in between on how to get it to stay up. Excellent!
I'm glad you checked :) Hoplites (soldiers) provided their own armor. Equipment was not standardized, but often passed down from father to son. They wore knee-length chitons. Poor hoplites wore no armor at all. Better equipped hoplites wore a linothorax, made of stitched or glued linen, leather and/or fur. Generals wore the muscle armor you might be familiar with, which was called a panoply. Other standards were a helmet, shield (aspis or hoplon), spear (doru), and short sword (xiphos).
I know you posted this forever ago, but have you considered a video on ancient Egyptian Kalasiris? There are many styles and some Pinterest picture-tutorials, but they don't really tell you much, and I'd love to learn more about it! Especially for trying to figure out cloth dimensions.
Thank you so much, my daughter and I are doing her homework, she decided to do a Greek style Fashion show, although there are many images out there, your video was fantastic and very informative in helping us with the folding ect. Just Brilliant.
You were absolutely right. There were no other vids of this kind out there (I checked). Were there any other types of dress, particularly for men, that you could elaborate on? I am looking for more soldier style (not the "300" movie type but rather the real deal!).
I may be wrong but I think that in a book of robert flacelière it's written that it wasn't acceptable even for men to wear a himation without something under it, as they would be perceived as mad, the only exception being philosophers for some reason
Thanks for being so hands-on and clear. When I have tried to google ancient Greek dress, the illustrations have been at best a photo of a sculpture, at worst a photo of a pot decoration, and the terms have sometimes been contradictory from place to place. I wonder what the women wore under. (Especially, and I am asking for a...friend, what big breasted women wore to manage their...friends.)
Khaire Elani Temperance! Eirene kai Hygeia! Thank you a lot for your website and TH-cam channel, specially this video about how to dress peplos and chitons, and I´m sure for the others videos I still had no opportunity to watch. For a long time I want to have my own chiton, but I didn´t know how to dress it. I still don´t know about the size of the rectangular cloth, height and width, could you tell more about it? How to prepare and measure the size of cloth? of a chiton?
Thanks for the video! One question how large a cloth/sheet do you recommend? You said about 6 inches longer than one's height but what about around the waist? One and a half times? Would a single/twin flat sheet work for most people? Thanks again for posting this!
Thank you! In agreement with other comments, I haven't found this shown elsewhere. Have you continued posting on another channel? If so it would be helpful to speak up a bit, as you have a soft voice and had to stand a few feet away to demonstrate.
So, is the first one worn under the second one? If not, what is worn under the second example? I know more about what the Romans wore than the Greeks, and I have to dress as Calypso for a JCL convention this summer, and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the whole right side of my body being leftexposed, like in the first example.
That depended on a couple of factors. A woman's chiton would always be worn at ankle length. Men wore the long chiton during the Archaic period, but later wore it at knee length, except for certain occupations such as priests and charioteers, and also the elderly. They wore it long even later on.
Because I tend to have to repin it anyway. Usually, I take the time to pin it right the first time. If I am preparing for a multiple-day even will keep the pins in, though.
Feel free to contact me privately through TH-cam, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or email. You can find all methods of reaching me on my blog (link in description). Following a dual path certainly sounds exhausting; I'm sure I would not be able to do both justice. Good luck and Gods bless,
Good stuff Elani, would love to talk about this stuff more, I am so torn between nordic and hellenistic legacy that i literally am following both, is that cray?
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I'm sitting here hand-stitching a summer dress and realizing I could have just taken the fabric, pinned it at my shoulders, and worn it with a belt and it would have been just as cute...
@@kristinconway3101 let's just Wear the Damn Rectangle?
Toga toga toga
@@kristinconway3101just fucking do it!!!
I am consistently impressed with what can be done with a rectangle of cloth. These chiton look quite elegant, and it's just a rectangle draped, folded, and pinned. The sari of India and the pareo from the Pacific islands, and this probably before either of those... it's all really amazing.
the sari from India is a very ancient clothing and is not after these clothes. We can say they are contemporary or much older than these. Even today sari India's national dress.
Lucas Sebastião de Almeida Castro
For all we know Neanderthal Man might have worn a form of drapery. But yeah, Greek and Indian seem to be the oldest forms still in existence.
+Lucas Sebastião de Almeida Castro may be you are correct my friend but as an Indian I know that women used to wear sari since vedic ages...anyways love wearing it
Sreelekha Sen
I can't say with any authority or confidence which came first, but I know that I like them.
I think the Egyptian clothing is being forgotten here.
Ancient Greeks: embrace the blanket burrito
Lol
Thank you so much! This was hands down, the best tutorial I have seen thus far. Others show you the basics, then cut to the finished look without the in between on how to get it to stay up. Excellent!
Very welcome! I am happy it was informative!
I'm glad you checked :) Hoplites (soldiers) provided their own armor. Equipment was not standardized, but often passed down from father to son. They wore knee-length chitons. Poor hoplites wore no armor at all. Better equipped hoplites wore a linothorax, made of stitched or glued linen, leather and/or fur. Generals wore the muscle armor you might be familiar with, which was called a panoply. Other standards were a helmet, shield (aspis or hoplon), spear (doru), and short sword (xiphos).
I'm glad you like it :) It was a pleasure to do! Again, if anyone has requests for videos, I would love to hear them.
I know you posted this forever ago, but have you considered a video on ancient Egyptian Kalasiris? There are many styles and some Pinterest picture-tutorials, but they don't really tell you much, and I'd love to learn more about it! Especially for trying to figure out cloth dimensions.
Thanks so much. I was curious how it actually worked not just the toga party version
Thank you so much, my daughter and I are doing her homework, she decided to do a Greek style Fashion show, although there are many images out there, your video was fantastic and very informative in helping us with the folding ect. Just Brilliant.
Very welcome! I am very happy to hear it was useful!
This is an amazing tutorial! I wish all TH-cam tutorials were this good!!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you for representing Hellenismos.
Thank you! I came across this video while searching for Hellenic clothing I can wear to pray, to bring myself closer to the deities
That really helps me with my fanfiction. My protagonist (an artist) fells in love with a muse.
Ancient Greek drape is beautiful. That is amazing !!
I enjoyed watching this video. It really does resembles with what's usually illustrated in bibles etc.
You're a hero. Fantastic video, so helpful.
Thank you! I saw the pictures on how to do it, but it didn't connect until I saw your video. 😊
What a wonderful demonstration. Thanks for this!
this is awesome Elani. thanks for sharing this, very informative !!
Oh my god! Thank you! I've been looking for a tutorial to make one! I have to dress as Hypatia for a school project!
I'm glad you like it, and thank you very much! :)
Lovely. Please do another video 🖤🖤🖤🖤
You were absolutely right. There were no other vids of this kind out there (I checked). Were there any other types of dress, particularly for men, that you could elaborate on? I am looking for more soldier style (not the "300" movie type but rather the real deal!).
You mean a roman tunic?
Indian saree is another example to learn from. Indian women drape that 5 m cloth gracefully and secure it with so much ease.
Thank you SO much! This was immensely helpful!
Thanks. It's hard to find out some of the smaller details about history sometime. I will look this up. Thanks again.
I may be wrong but I think that in a book of robert flacelière it's written that it wasn't acceptable even for men to wear a himation without something under it, as they would be perceived as mad, the only exception being philosophers for some reason
Philosophers *are* mad. That's why. 😉
Thanks for being so hands-on and clear.
When I have tried to google ancient Greek dress, the illustrations have been
at best a photo of a sculpture, at worst a photo of a pot decoration,
and the terms have sometimes been contradictory from place to place.
I wonder what the women wore under. (Especially, and I am asking
for a...friend, what big breasted women wore to manage their...friends.)
Khaire Elani Temperance! Eirene kai Hygeia! Thank you a lot for your website and TH-cam channel, specially this video about how to dress peplos and chitons, and I´m sure for the others videos I still had no opportunity to watch. For a long time I want to have my own chiton, but I didn´t know how to dress it. I still don´t know about the size of the rectangular cloth, height and width, could you tell more about it? How to prepare and measure the size of cloth? of a chiton?
Thank you so much for making this video - love it!
This is perfect for Greek summer.
they are simple but not easy to put on.
Thanks for the video! One question how large a cloth/sheet do you recommend? You said about 6 inches longer than one's height but what about around the waist? One and a half times? Would a single/twin flat sheet work for most people? Thanks again for posting this!
I used the sheet size or a full mattress with an extra yard just in case.
Thankyou so much. We are doing a bublical skit. Your video made us so easy to dress up.😊
I will, thank you. Usually, I boost the sound a bit in editing, but I forgot this time. I apologize.
Thank you, you saved my history grade
Thank you! In agreement with other comments, I haven't found this shown elsewhere.
Have you continued posting on another channel? If so it would be helpful to speak up a bit, as you have a soft voice and had to stand a few feet away to demonstrate.
Before stitching was invented people used to wear single piece of fabrics like her
Thank you very much :) I try, as I care very deeply for it as well.
Thank you for your opinion, LevelOlive :)
Very welcome! That's certainly a use I hadn't thought of, but I like it very much.
So, is the first one worn under the second one? If not, what is worn under the second example? I know more about what the Romans wore than the Greeks, and I have to dress as Calypso for a JCL convention this summer, and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the whole right side of my body being leftexposed, like in the first example.
Thank you for this great reference :)
great work
It is correct that for the men's version of the doric chiton, it only comes to the knees?
That depended on a couple of factors. A woman's chiton would always be worn at ankle length. Men wore the long chiton during the Archaic period, but later wore it at knee length, except for certain occupations such as priests and charioteers, and also the elderly. They wore it long even later on.
Because I tend to have to repin it anyway. Usually, I take the time to pin it right the first time. If I am preparing for a multiple-day even will keep the pins in, though.
Very helpful, thanks!
2:20 is when she actually starts teaching us how to do the toga
Thank you very much!!
I came here from an indian saree tutorial and this is just as interesting.
thank u ma'am its realy helpfull video for us
Feel free to contact me privately through TH-cam, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or email. You can find all methods of reaching me on my blog (link in description). Following a dual path certainly sounds exhausting; I'm sure I would not be able to do both justice. Good luck and Gods bless,
Thank you for this. You are perfect
Hello Madam
Can you teach how to make a dress in simpler forms(mainly with those clothes), for a character like Iphigenia?
It wasn't recommended..I SEARCHED FOR IT
thanks a lot great video
Good stuff Elani, would love to talk about this stuff more, I am so torn between nordic and hellenistic legacy that i literally am following both, is that cray?
Haha! Thank you. I mean it; it means a lot.
Very welcome! Good luck :)
@Elani Temperance can you use a plain old bedsheet for this
@@pineapplesdonotbelongonpizza yes
Why don't you pin the Peplos before you put it on? :)
so basically ancient Greek walk around with their bed sheet
pleaseee more videos :D of prpate liquids and things for the gods pleas :D
This is very good, but I need perizoma instructions, otherwise I have to do sports naked.
9:01. how carry items
toga!!! toga!!!toga!!!
4:52 I'M BATMAN!
Make more dammit
9:15
This is fresh and easy to put on and women need no bra. Perfect! Lol
Beautifully shaped woman
Too slim
Fatal
Christ is the only God.
I have a quietion did you do reasearch?
@@DancingBugBoi Of course they didn't
this is the stupidest demo I've ever seen
Thank you it was the last one I needed, cn you buve, searching I. Google I find nothing, I look here and bingo... I fundi you... Thsnk you xxx