Clothing Throughout History

Iron Age Celtic

-tunic (shirt)
-cloak (rectangular type)
-torc (Celtic)
-bracae (trousers)
-brooches
-belt with buckle
-sandals


Greek

-pleplos - doric (woman's dress)
-pleplos - ionic (woman's dress)
-chlamys (ciruclar or rectangular man's cloak)
-chiton - long shirt-like garment for men or women
-exomis - rectangular wrap for men
-himation - rectangular material draped over the body (men)
-Thessalian Cloaks (rectangular, short or long)
-short hunting cloak (circular)
-hat (straw, felt, leanther) - broad brimmed sun hat



Roman

-toga - impirial style
-toga - republican style
-priest's toga
-tunic - male (shirt)
-synthesis (sort of dressing gown for men)

-underwear - subligar
-underwear - subligaculum (loincloth)
-underwear - perizoma (loincloth)
-underwear - campestre
-underwear - cinctus
-underwear - shorts (seen in pictures of gladiators)


-cloak - sagum (rectangular)
-cloak - paenum / paenula (circular or semi-circular)
-cloak - lacerna (originally a military cloak) (semi-circular)
-cloak - laena (circular or semi-circular, often for priests)
-cucullus (hood like the paenula but until the chest or waist)
-other hoods (bardocullus, birrus, and male caracalla)
-pallium (large and rectangular, worn like a toga)

-fibulae (brooch)
-caligae (miliary sandal)
-calcei (sandals/shoes)
-pero (leather foot wrap)
-sculponea (wooden clog type shoe)
-soleae or sandalia or carbatinae (indoor sandals)
-socci (slippers)
-udones (socks)

-belt

-marching pack and sachel
-folcale (scarf)
-balteus (or "cingulum") (military belt)

-strophium (brassière)
-supparum, subucula, and (for matrons) indusium
-bikini briefs, panties (probably for dancing girls)
-tunica - female (long shirt)
-stola
-dalmatica
-cloak - palla
-cloak - ricinium
-female caracalla (sleeveless wrap)
-veil
-vittae (hair bands for tying back hair)



Mediaeval

-cloak - semi-circular with capelet and hood
-cloak - 3/4 circular
-cloak - circular
-cloak - rectangular
-cloak - fitted cloak
-cloak lining
-cloak accessories and details

-hood - snood
-hood - basic
-hood - cloak hood

-poncho type outerwear

-shirt - basic
-shirt - smock
-shirt - frilled
-shirt - frilled smock

-tunic - late period method
-tunic - dark age
-tunic - Saxon

-dress - simple
-dress - small
-dress - large
-dress - long sleaved (bell sleeves) type

-hat - cap
-hat - pointed
-hat - with front brim
-hat - beret type

-pouch - drawstring bag
-pouch - box pouch
-Late 13th- Early 14th Century Drawstring Pouch

-arming coat (coat worn with armour)

=Early Middle Ages/"Dark Ages" (c800-c1000)
-turnshoes (shoes)
-"scoh" - Saxon ankle-boot styles.
-"staeppescoh", the term used by the 8th C for slipper
-"swiftlere" later in this period
-translated into the Latin "subtalaris" ("below the ankle")
-"Socc" (from Roman "succus") - simple slipper
-synonomous with "slebescoh"/"slypesco" or slipshoe, or a "bag-like" foot covering that was easily slipped on.
-In some texts "socc" is synonmous to "callicula" and "gallicula" (both derived from "caligae")
-in others they referred to boots.
-"Tibracis" - a form of leather boot.
-"Calc" and "crinc" - types of a sandal.

=Anglo-Norman Era/Middle Ages (c1000-c1300)
-"Cordwainer" - shoes made of Cordwain, or Cordoban leather

-coptic tunic

-Viking Combs


Renaisance

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