Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1931, Page 98

N ANSWER TO THE QUESTION — - How CAN WE TELL WITH REASON- ABLE ACCURACLY THE KIND> OF CLOTHES MEN WORE IN ANCIENT B VE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, WHEN THE EGYPTIANS ‘WERE- DEVELOPING THEIR CULTURE IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE, THE SUMERIANS, AKIKADIANS AND- OTHER PEOPLES WERE BUILDING A PARALLEL CIVILIZATION IN MESOPOTAMIA ,IN WESTERN ASIA. LATER, THE WARLIKE ASSYRIANS AND BABYLONIANS CAME ON THE SCENE AND INTURN MADE THEMSELVES MASTERS OF MESO- RSTAMIA AND THE LANDSBORDER- 1/ ING IT ON THE EAST AND WEST.- THE CONQUERORS TCOK THE ‘CULTURE . OF THE PEOPLES THEY HAD VANQUISHED FOR THEIR OWN. = S piesT-or BEL (BaaL). ASSYRIANS AND BABYLONIANS OF ALL CLASSES - WORE THEIR HAIR LONG AND TIGHTLY CURLEDM - P S HE ANCIENT HEBREWS WERE A RACE OF , SHEPHERDS, GUARDING THEIR FLOCKS UPONWHE § HILLSIDES OF PALESTINE. § OFTEN YIELDS MUTE BUT INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE . [ 1= EasTERN END OF THE MEDITERRANEAN oL OBJE\C‘I -3 i T DECORATED WITH FIGURES BY THE: ANCIENTS THEMSELVES ADD TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORIC ¢OSTUMES. PICTURE I1S:COMPLETEP” WRITTEN DESCRIPTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESERVED. By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD: imrr DRAPERIES, SHORT SLEEVES AND HEAVY FRINGES WERE TYPICAL FEATURES OF ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN 2 o0 0w SHOWING THE DRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT DAY, — ®, -.- -- The Pageant of Dress—Part III YPES OF ASSYRIAN SoLDIERS,-100 B.C. ASSYRIAN - SANDAL AND SLIPPRR. <& EADDRESS OF AN AssYRIAN KING, SENNACHER|B Lo N HE CAPTURED WEALTH OF . MANY CONQUERED> NATIONS W GAVE THE ASSYRIANS AND BABYLONIANS THEMEANS TO ARRAY THEMSELVES IN ELABORATE- COSTUMES MADE OF THE MOST COSTLY MATERIALS . . . BABYLON, 560 B.C. — Bl -E PERSIANS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST To WEAR ////% /TQOUSERS. e LWVED THE PHOENICIANS, THE GREATEST SAILORS AND TRADERS OF ANCIENT TIMES. ITWAS THEY WHO CARRIED THE CIVILIZATION OF THE EAST TO THE BARBAROUS /72 NATIONSOF THE ~ WEST. ZTHEY MADE THE GORGEOUS PURPLE AND RED DYES THAT WERE SO HIGHLY PRIZED BY THE ANCIENTS,. | ¥ N 538 B.C.THE DECLINING ) 4 Nl | BABYLONIAK EMPIRE FELL i BEFORE THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE P —~— PHOENICIAN TRADER. AND PRIEST. | - . JEWISH FIGHTING - JewisH KNG IN ISRAELS ‘ MAN OF OLD " DAY OF GREATNESS, - ABOUT 1600 B8.C. TESTAMENT DAYS ./ © { -SAQESULT ( s N OF THEIR LONG & YEARS OF sl pome CAPTIVITY IN o EGYPT AND = BABYLON THE i COSTUMES OF . THE ISRAELITES | CAME TO RESEMBLE THOSE OF THEIR FOREIGN OVERLORDS. B sevess o 3000 YEARS aGo | HeBREW HiGH PRIEST. THE TWELVE JEWELS IN"THE BREASTPLATE SYMBOLIZED THE- TWELVE TRIBES OF 1SRAEL. - T2 1931;