peplos
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Origin of peplos
First recorded in 1770–80, peplos is from the Greek word péplos (masculine)
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The artistic director at Christian Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, opened her couture show with a simple white dress resembling the peplos of classical Greece: a rectangle of cloth draped to make a flowing column.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2019
This year, Chiuri printed the peplos with the title of a crucial work of social criticism—Bernard Rudofsky’s “Are Clothes Modern?”—in a typeface inspired by the cloth cover of its first edition, from 1947.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2019
It was the early image of Athena, not the Athena Parthenos by Phidias, that was annually washed in the sea, and for which the peplos was woven by the chosen women of Athens.
From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner
Center of all the marchers is the glittering peplos, raised like a sail upon a wheeled barge of state—"the ship of Athena."
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
The outer garment was the mantle, or peplos, shaped like a shawl and capable of a variety of picturesque drapings.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
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