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Figleafing Through History: The Dynamics of Dress


5. Comments:
1. Explains the history of fashion of the Near east tribes, that they wear a form of kaunakes cloths that are robes of fleece with sheep or goat legs taht fell down like an animals disguises of the ancient rituals. It's a ceremonial dress for gods and the spiritual world.
2. They mention varities of places from far ago till modern world, the era changes so some history might be more traditional and older than others.
3. Another history of clothing is, when the Queen of Ur, a Sumerian queen name Shub-ad died, all her servant, workers, ladies-in-waiting, serving ladies will dress the dead queen up. In beautiful fine golden, red robes and extoic jewerly. And dress themselves in red and crimson wool all over their body except their eyes,hand and feet. Then as going in the tomb with the dead queen. They all drink a drug and dies with her for the afterlife in style.
4. The comparision of men and women dressing in Mesopotamia to be specific the Babylonians. After being defeated and wining their empires...
5. The color indications of the babylonians time. The colors that were status of bold, were rich red, yellow, green, blue, purple. Then the way that the high status what kind of garment they would wear. Example, the neck line, width of the shawl and sleeves or long/short scarfs.

4. Questions:
1. How did these culture came up with those beliefs in colors and the afterlife?
2. What kind of fabrics and tools did they use to make them?
3. Were tehy in a trading system? That allows thme to transfer different materials from different location in the world?
4. Why do the babylonians think that nudity is agaisnt the gods yet cherish the way people are when they are nake? That they think the modesty in women was admirable yet felt shameful for females?

3.Vobaulary:
1. embroidered: To ornament with needlework
2. regimentation: The strict discipline and enforced uniformity characteristic of military groups or totalitarian systems.
3. mollusc: Any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.

2.Literary Terms:
1. Irony: Since they belive that nudity is agaisnt their religion of the gods, yet they treasure the way women are but feels shameful for them.
2. Symbol: The indication of colors refering to what it stand for in different civilization.

1.Overview:
1. For these pages it provide information of istory from the near east of Mesopotamia and the period of the babylonians. Also history of the clothes that they wore and a culture way that it spread and influence to other culture. And the arguement of the beauty of a female body and rituals ceremonials afterlife customs.