---
node: fashion_hellenistic
type: fashion
slug: hellenistic_greece_fashion
title: "Fashion in Hellenistic Greece"
lead: "In the Hellenistic age Greek dress grew varied across an enlarged world: finer fabrics and more elaborate draping and hairstyles spread, and the Tanagra figurines record its grace."
published: 2026-07-28
updated: 2026-07-28
image_file: hellenistic_greece_fashion.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_pillar_Louvre_Myr219.jpg"
image_author: "Hellenistic draped figurine, Louvre (CC BY 3.0)"
image_license: "CC BY 3.0"
change: "Created as a fashion sub-page under the history section, with a period image (greece region)"
requester: internal
reason: "Per the owner's decision, fashion lives under each history era"
---

## Overview

In the Greek world that Alexander's campaigns spread as far as the East, dress too grew richer under local influences.

## Key garments and style

The basic draped garment was kept, but thin, fine fabric was favoured and an elegant, complex draping of the himation around the body became fashionable; the Tanagra figurines record this refined women's dress.

## Transition

When Rome annexed Greece, this dress mingled with Roman clothing.