Diary Entry 1 - Clothing

I am a wealthy girl living in Ancient Egypt, my parents gave dairy for my 14th birthday yesterday and i promised them i would write in it everyday. today i am going to be writing about the clothing in Ancient Egypt.

Clothing

I didn't start wearing clothes until i turned 13. This is because all children are not obligated to wear clothes until they reach puberty. All Egyptians were simple clothing made out of linen, which was made out of flax that is grown in the fields. People who came form my social class, the rich, were finely woven linen while the workers wear a stronger material. The male peasants wear loincloths which hang form their wasts down to their knees. Many times they wore no clothing. The upper class, rich men wear kilts or skirts and the women wear simple, tight-fitting dresses. In Egypt you are considered a man or a women when you are past the age of 12, so i wear a dress made out of fine linen. Some people wear sandals made form leather or reed. The rich women, like my mom wear shawls, flower headdresses and beaded collars. She, and all other upper class women love to decorated their clothes with costume jewelry.

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