Through the Eras

FashionRoyal women begin to wear the Hathoricwig.1938–1759 Twelfth-dynasty evidence shows hunterswearing protective codpieces.1844–1837 During the reign of King Senwosret II,small-scale home spinning and weavingworkshops begin to appear.1759–1630 A Thirteenth-dynasty papyrus, now in theBrooklyn Museum, lists twenty femaleweavers who specialized in different kindsof cloth.1630–1539 Kings first wear the Blue Crown, theeveryday crown of kings in the New Kingdom.1539–1075 Women first wear the complex wraparounddress, supplanting the simplewraparound dress.New Kingdom evidence that soldiers,sailors, and craftsmen wore leather loinclothsto protect linen loincloths datesfrom this period.Women first wear the enveloping wig.Men begin to wear more elaborate hairstyles.1539–1514 Royal women first wear a double Uraeusin the reign of King Ahmose.1514–1493 Curved ram’s horns, a symbol of the godAmun, become a regular element of theking’s crowns during the reign of AmenhotepI.1479–1425 Textual evidence from the tomb of thevizier Rekhmire names a large number ofdifferent grades of linen.1478–1458 The tomb of princess Hatneferet andvizier Ramose contains large numbers ofexamples of upper-class, non-royal clothing.1400–1390 King Thutmose IV is the first king tocombine the Red and White crowns withthe Nemes kerchief.1390–1352 The queen’s crowns in the reign of AmenhotepIII adopt a circlet of Uraeus-snakesas a base.1352–1332 Unisex hairstyles called the Nubian wigand the rounded wig are worn during thereign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.Nefertiti is the first queen to wear the CapCrown, worn by kings since the OldKingdom.1332–1322 King Tutankhamun’s tomb containshundreds of examples of clothing.1292–1075 Very long wigs—waist length for womenand shoulder length for men—becomefashionable.Priests begin shaving their heads.760–656 Egyptian rulers from the Sudan adopt adouble Uraeus formerly only worn bywomen.332–30 Ptolemaic queens begin wearing a tripleUraeus.Arts and Humanities Through the Eras: Ancient Egypt (2675 B.C.E.–332 B.C.E.) 87