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Fashion as history comes full circle. Often returns, for sure leaves an idelible trace. Every era characterized by your individualism and simultaneously draws something from the previous.   Antique Woman in a loose dress tied at the waist. A man in a tunice and high sandals.     Middle Ages Woman …

THE WORSHIP OF THE MAGI– MINIATURE OF THE VATICAN LATIN CODE 39, FROM THE 13TH CENTURY– VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY   An incredibly clear example of a hood that covers Our Lady’s shoulders over the cape draped over her arms. Tunic with rich gold, embroidered sandals. In the images of the …

  DETAIL OF AN APSIDAL MOSAIC – DATING TO THE XII CENTURY – CHURCH OF SAINT CLEMENT, ROME   The mosaic evidently depicts not a poor farmwoman, but a landowner, since above her tunic the woman is wearing.

  FIGURES OF SAINTS – DETAIL OF THE APSIDAL MOSAIC DATING CIRCA YEAR 1120 – DUOMO, CEFALU’   Clerical garb in Sicily, which is in keeping with tradition, is strikingly Byzantine in nature. This is displayed by the three figures of saints with a tunic (sticharium) with its lavishly decorated …

      THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI – MINIATURE OF THE EVANGELIARIA OF 1170 ILLUSTRATED BY PRIEST ISIDORE – TREASURE OF THE DUOMO, PADOVA   The Madonna wears a sample of typical XII century feminine apparel: embroidered mantle, surcoat with aurifregi decorations, cassock tunic and calcei (Roman military boots). …