Did the Romans use makeup? Ancient cosmetics
Roman makeup: A stone finger and palette for crushing cosmetics into powder before putting them on your face (St. Germain en Laye, France) Men and women Both men and women [...]
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Ancient Roman Clothing – History of Clothing
A man in a tunic with dreads in Roman North Africa Roman men and women, like other Indo-Europeans, originally seem to have worn a large piece of wool, wrapped around themselves. After [...]
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American clothing – 1900s AD
Girls working in a mill, about 1900 AD By about 1900, though, cloth and clothing got cheap enough that there was a big change in how people thought about clothes. [...]
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American clothing – 1700s
Hendrick, an Iroquois leader, in 1740 AD By the 1700s, clothing styles had changed more. There were not so many deer on the East Coast anymore, so deerskin was harder [...]
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American clothing – 1600s AD
Algonquin people with wool blankets In the 1600s, most people still dressed the same as they had before, in deerskins. But in the south-west, Pueblo and Navajo people began to buy wool clothing from the Spanish settlers. [...]
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American clothing in the 1500s AD
A Cree deerskin jacket Kids in North America in the 1500s AD wore deerskin dresses or shirts and pants when it was cold, and they mostly went naked when it was warm. Often their [...]
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American clothing styles
Algonquin men about 1530 AD Ever since the first European invaders came to North America about 1500 AD, people in North America have been changing how they dress. Native American people have started [...]
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Early Cherokee clothing – Native American history
Cherokee hairstyles Early Cherokee clothing: Tsiyu Gansini, Cherokee chief (late 1700s AD) - Cherokee hairstyles Like most people, Cherokee people used their clothing and hairstyles to show that they were [...]
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European clothing – 1800s
Italian peasant, about 1850 (by Pierre Louis Dubourcq) At the very end of the 1700s AD, the invention of the cotton gin meant that the new country of the United States of America could produce [...]
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Machine-made clothing – Europe 1600s-1800s
India cotton (1600s AD) In the early 1600s AD, traders began to bring cotton cloth to Europe on sailing ships from India. People thought this cotton cloth was very convenient - it was pretty, [...]
