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| c. 1700 B.C.E.–c. 1450 B.C.E. | In Minoan Crete of the Neopalatial Period frescoes show women wearing short jackets which left their breasts bare and a bell-shaped skirt falling from a girdle at the waist. Men, when not shown nude, wear a kind of short double-apron covering their genitalia. |
| c. 1200 B.C.E. | The safety pin appears in Greece, which indicates that women are already wearing the peplos which is fastened at the shoulders by safety pins called peronai. |
| c. 600 B.C.E. | Towards the end of the Early Archaic Period, the Ionian chiton becomes popular in Athens, displacing the simpler Dorian chiton, or peplos, which remains the standard women's dress in Sparta and other Dorian states. |
| 594 B.C.E. | Solon, the chief magistrate (in Greek archon) of Athens, creates a law that forbids women to wear more than three... |
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