What Did The Ancient Egyptians Wear ?

                                                 What did the Ancient Egyptian wear ?
It is quite amazing how much information we get from the pictures on the pyramids themselves and even the colours are still bright, after hundreds (or is it thousands ?) of years.

The fabrics used depended on the wealth of the person. The Pharoahs and those who lived with them, family, officials, Drs, would ear silk and / or leather, leopard skin and sometimes the Pharoah would wear a lion's tail around the waist.

For the poor, it was linen. Plant fibers such as flax (that grew along the Nile River) would be soaked, combed, and then beaten into threadlike fibers. Once they became threadlike, they would then be spun and placed on a loom. Usually men harvested the flax stalks, while women were the ones who would spin the flax thread and make the garments.
                              As Egypt was hot and humid, light weight clothing was used.

 For Men === the workers wore lion clothes of cotton or linen or wool. Those more wealthy would wear a wraparound skirt made with linen, and tie a belt around the waist.
For Women === the higher the position, the thinner the material. usually full-length dresses with either one or two shoulder straps. A few of these dresses would lie below the breasts, but most covered the chest. Sometimes, the dress was pleated.
For Children === until the age of six, the youngest wore nothing. From six, the child would wear clothes for protection against the sun. From puberty, the child would wear adult clothes.