Ancient Greek Costume

The Greeks liked wearing gold wreaths as decorative headdresses, ornately adorned with flowers, acorns, foliage or images. With jewelry designs and techniques becoming advanced, the Greeks made a laurel headdress to be worn as a crown of honor. It represented Apollo, the god of divination and intelligence.

From its wide popularity in adorning ancient Greek jewelry to the modern times, the purple richness of amethyst has made it the most loved gemstone for decorating unique jewelry pieces. This purple gemstone has also been very much sought-after by people in authoritative positions. It was believed that amethyst symbolized the spirit of God.

During the festivities, teams of revelers went door to door in ancient Greek costumes, dancing and singing carols. These costumes represented figures of humans and animals. For a near perfect celebration of the history of Halloween, these revelers would wear a variety of costumes. What was more special was that most such costumes were made of different parts of animals. Sometimes such typical costumes were just disguises, with hardly anyone being aware of their relation with ancient Greek history and culture.

Wedding dresses were also a very significant part of the ancient Greek costumes. In fact, a lot of people today, for old times’ sake, choose the wedding themes of ancient Greeks. They are extremely particular that their gowns should be elegantly suggestive of the styles preferred by the Ancient Greeks. They leave no stone unturned to get the perfect look of the costumes of Greek weddings – to accentuate its overall appearance, the dress is often worn with elegant wedding sandals like those of the Greeks. Working on ancient Greek costumes for the wedding dress, the design is inspired by two main things – the sculptures of Aphrodite and the eternal beauty of ancient Greek styles!