Roman clothes analysis by
using 3 principles of design
Roman period is the period that
comes after Greek and the time not very far, so their culture is not much
different from each other. Roman and Greek were worshipping same God. Roman also
admired Greek art. The inspirations of most things are from Greek, same as
cloth, their clothes have just a little bit of details that different. This
essay will analyze Roman clothes using 3 principles of design, which are
material, compare and contrast, and balance.
First is material, the material of
Roman cloth and Greek is the same. They use natural resources and raw material,
which are animal skin, wools, linen, cotton, and silk. They also usually not
dye their cloth either and use thread to create geometric form for example,
lines instead.
Second is compare and contrast. In this
period, woman and men both wear long garment. Roman men wear toga instead of
Greek himation (large semicircle of cloth), so it add more layer than the
toga. Himation is wear with rectangular or semicircular cloak. The cloak can
wear in two different ways; it can pin on the right shoulders or join at the
front of the body. Wealthy men or the
warrior wear outerwear kind of like armor but made of animal skin or metal. Roman
women wore the ankle-length, pleated dress known as the Stola, which could have long sleeves
and fastened at the shoulder with the clasp known as a Fibula. But for the low rank woman
such as prostitute will wear Tuga instead. Also woman in this period enjoy
going out of their home, they create hairstyle and old woman and young woman is
not wearing the same hairstyle.
Third is balance, Roman clothes
are almost one shoulder. And the clothes place upon another shoulder then lean
down on in one side of body, so the cloth is not really balancing because one
shoulder almost free and another shoulder has many layers of clothes.
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