Byzantine fashion

Maria Andreeva as Sophia Palaiologina in the Russian TV series "Sophia" (2016) The Grand Duchess of Moscow Zoe (Sophia) Palaiologina, Grand Duchess of Moscow, was a niece of the last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI and second wife of Ivan III of Moscow. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 was not the total collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire. In southern Greece the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea continued on until 1460. The title despotes should not be confused with the term of despotism…

Common Byzantine women hairstyles/ headdresses. You can see the trend of pulled back hair topped with an bejeweled headdress.

Byzantine Empire. Costumes of the Byzantine empire.

Byzantine fashion history. Costumes 5th to 6th century. Byzantium was the centre of fashion and civilisation from the fifth to the twelfth century.

Here are some pictures for inspiration. Most are from “By the Emperor´s Hand: Military Dress and Court Regalia in the Later Roman-Byzantine Empire” de Timothy Dawson (2015). 7/31/21 …

Description Medieval clothing: Frankish women wore colourful tunics, fastened with two belts and a band of precious materials. They wore their hair in long pleats, covered with veils or caps.

Women in the Byzantine era wore decorated long sleeve tunics known as the dalmatic, over an under tunic. They also normally had their hair covered in turban like hats or veils as seen here.