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= = Ancient Greece clothing, hair and females  In these paragraphs I will be explaining about females and clothing & hair, this info is actually very interesting, and very different than it is today, like for example in ancient Greece blonde hair was rare, today it is not, another example is that we borrowed most of our hair styles from the ancient Greek, shocking right?

 Women and girls in ancient Greece had very little freedom; they had to get permission for everything, even if they wanted to leave the house for just a few minutes.

The women and girls job was to keep the house in order, to make the clothing and bear the children. Some households had slaves to help the women; the female slaves would help cook, clean, and worked in the fields. Male slaves watched the door while the women’s husbands were out. Girl’s fathers were to control them and keep them at home until they got married, they’d usually get married in their teens to a man in their thirties. When girls were ready to get married their father would choose their husband. After the girls got married their spouse would control them and the property. When the Olympic Games came, they would not be able to watch them because they wore no clothing, but they could watch chariot racing, if they had a horse than they could enter it in, and if the horse won they would receive the prize. As you can see females in ancient Greece had a very difficult life, they had little freedom and didn’t get very many choices, their father controlled their life, they chose who the girl would marry and controlled her before they got married, and their husbands would also control parts of their life. Men had much more freedom

Ancient Greeks always kept they hair simple. There was a difference between the wealthy and the poor, the wealthy would buy there clothing, like colourful tunics, for the poor they would make their own clothing like a plain tunic. The ancient Greeks admired the blonde look, though it was rare many tried bleaching their hair. All clothing in ancient Greece was made by female slaves. Men and women enjoyed using mirrors, hair brushes as well as perfumes. The first real hat was made by the ancient Greeks, if you do not want it on your head there is a chin strap attached so it can hang off your neck when not needed. Men kept their hair short unless they were soldiers. During summer the Greeks would wear light loose clothing, for shoes they would wear sandals. . In winter they’d wear big warm boots and heavy clothing. As you can see the clothing that Greeks wore was very different to what we wear now, though they wore boots in the winter like us and wore sandals in the summer also like us, they looked very different.

See what I mean, when I say different I mean different, now you know how different life was in ancient Greece than it is today, it was more challenging than it is today. Purple=Concluding+intro's  ** Pink=detail //graphs  **  