Your FINAL, BIG BLOG POST is due next Monday, May 12. As a reminder, here are the requirements:

In this post, I'm going to give you a little taste of what you can expect in my final post (coming soon!). As you know, I am researching about Greek fashion and learning new things everyday. In doing research, I discovered that clothing was almost always homemade. This makes sense because ancient Greek infrastructure was not nearly as developed as ours is today. But it leads to the question... how did trends develop? A lot of what we know about Greek fashion comes from art. Maybe Greek art served like the media does today. It both reflected modern fashions and brought fashion trends to the masses. You'll find out more next week. Thanks for reading!

Take a look at the outline of my final post:
1.  Intro: what we think of when we think of Greek fashion
2.  Female Fashions
3.  Male Fashions
4.  The spread of trends in Athens
5.  Change in fashions during the Golden Age
6.  How does it affect us today

There are a bunch of useful sources available about ancient Greek fashion, but I picked these three to start with. YOU might use many more sources, especially if they are short!

1.  Department of Greek and Roman Art. "Ancient Greek Dress." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. October 2003. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Web 27 March 2014. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grdr/hd_grdr.htm>.
       I think this source is useful because it focuses specifically on my topic, and provides a lot of visual images of artifacts. This source is trustworthy because it is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum I have visited and know to be incredibly respected internationally. The purpose of a museum is to preserve the past and to teach visitors about art, so I know that their information will not be biased.

2. Carr, Karen. "Ancient Greek Clothing." - Ancient Greece for Kids! 2014. Portland State University.  Web 29 March 2014. <http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/clothing/>.
      At first, I wasn't sure about this source because the website does not look very professional. Then, I scrolled to the bottom and saw that it was written by a university professor. University professors are usually trustworthy because they have to spend years getting a PhD and their lives researching the topic.

3. Houston, Mary. Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Costume. London: Dover Publication, 2011. Print.
      I included this source because it is a BOOK and that was required. This book was published by a legitimate publisher and it contains a bunch of info about my topic so I think it's a trustworthy and useful source.


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In order to write a good anything, you need to have questions to guide you. These questions should be broad enough that you can find answers to them, but specific enough that your research paper doesn't read like a boring encyclopedia entry.

Here are my three guiding questions for my research blog on ancient Greek fashion:
- How did ancient Greek fashion change during the 400-year period when Greek culture was at its height?
- Why did males and females dress differently? How did their dress relate to their daily tasks?
- In ancient Greece, was there such thing as being "out of fashion"? Why did trends rise and fall?

I have always been very interested in the history of fashion. In college, one of my favorite courses was called "Costume History" and I learned all about the development of fashion in the 19th and 20th centuries. For a while, I thought I would even become a fashion history writer or a textile conservator but then I discovered I love teaching. Because of my previous interest in the topic, I want to explore Ancient Greek fashion!  I plan on looking at Greek art, such as sculpture, reliefs, and painting, to see firsthand what the Greeks wore. I explore the differences between male and female dress, but focus on females because they usually wear more interesting stuff. I'm excited to start researching!

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