ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the practical interpretation of recreating New Kingdom dresses and has touched on other issues of importance. It examines the style of complex-wrapped dress in five variations: the basic wrap-around dress and a shawl; the complex-wrapped dress constructed from one length of cloth; the open-front dress; the late new Kingdom dressmss and shawl; the Third Intermediate to Late Period dressmss and shawl. The Egyptians used a clever wrapping and draping technique, which was achieved only by using a finely woven linen cloth that was soft and had a good drape. The complex-wrapped dress style of the Amarna period was truly a display of conspicuous consumption, flaunting layers of expensive fine linen as a manifestation of wealth and social power. The adoption of the mss and shawl dress by the people, the wealthy, and the workers alike proved to be a visual means by which they were drawn into a closer identity.
