Himation

[3] The himation continued into the Byzantine era as "iconographic dress" used in art and by the lower classes, worn by Christ, the Virgin Mary, and biblical figures.

[5] Through different decorations, pottery, and statues, it is known that himation was typically made out of wool and linen, usually in the color white.

[2] Because of the price of the material, quality linen was typically reserved for the upper class of Greek society.

A properly arranged himation conveyed elite status, while garments in disarray created opportunities for bodily display in homosexual and heterosexual courtship.

[9] Vases depicting life during the start of Archaic Greece showed that men of all ages and social classes wore the himation over the chiton.

[9] Older boys, who are above the age of ephebos, when not wearing the style followed by adult men, covered their entire body with the himation.

One of them, Theophrastus, described Boorishness in his work Characters, as a person who sits while allowing his himation to be draped above his knees.

In an explanation of a piece of artwork at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Dionysos is described as wearing "a himation and ivy wreath and carries Kantharos in uplifted left hand".

[6] Women commonly wore himation in public "as warm cloaks over their thin Ionic chitons".

Statues at the "House of Cleopatra" in Delos , Greece. Woman and man wearing himations
This image is the Bronze Statue of a Roman Aristocratic Boy, wearing himation, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art . [ 7 ]
Sitting Achilles wrapped in a himation, from c. 500 BC
The Terracotta Amphora from the Metropolitan Museum of Art , showing a judge in himation [ 10 ]
The other side of the Terracotta Amphora from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing a young man singing and playing the kithara [ 11 ]