Can somebody please describe the ancient egyptian men and womans clothing ?
In ‘The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt’ it says: ‘In general Egyptian clothing was very simple; men working in the fields or involved in craftwork often wore little more than a loincloth or short kilt, although shirt-like garments have survived from the Early Dynastic period onwards; the earliest example being a linen dress/shirt from Tarkhan in Lower Egypt (c 2800 BC). Clothing can often be used as a reliable chronological guide in that the Egyptian elite of most periods were generally subject to changes in fashion. The dress of courtiers of Ramesside times, for einstance, could be extremely elaborate and the men often wore pleated kilts with unusual apron-like arrangements at the front. During the Old Kingdom, women (and goddesses) are usually portrayed wearing a kind of sheath-dress with broad shoulder straps, but by the New Kingdom this had evolved into a type of dress with only one strap, and by the reign of Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BC) more diaphanous garments were be
