Celtic Clothing
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The oldest depictions of Celtic clothing come from the Hallstatt period (around 500 b.c.) from the area of modern Austria. Several men are shown on a decorative scabbard plate (Fig. 1). They are wearing tight fitting pants, a tunic that resembles a cutaway coat and shoes with upturned toes. These early Celts were on the border of a Scythian lands and their outfits may show Scythian influence. Stylized women's figures from the same time show them wearing highly decorated skirts or tunics but because of the nature of the drawings, no definite construction can be determined. (Fig. 2). Remains of clothing from a Celtic chieftain's grave at Hochdorf (also Halstatt period) shows pants worn with a tunic and shoes with pointed toes. An unusual find was a conical hat of birch-bark decorated with fine punched patterns. Preserved bodies of Halstatt salt miners show the same type of clothing on a less grand scale with conical hats of animal fur. Celt-Iberic (Celts from what is now modern Spain and Portugal) men are shown wearing tunics of mid-thigh length with a wide decorated belt at the waist (Figure 3). Celt Iberian women wore elaborate headdresses and tunics with checkered trim, and sometimes flounces at the hem (Figure 4).
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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