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node: fashion_late_period
type: fashion
slug: late_period_of_egypt_fashion
title: "Fashion in the Late Period"
lead: "In the Late Period, Persian rule and contact with the Mediterranean world deepened; traditional linen dress was kept while foreign styles and textiles mingled in."
published: 2026-07-28
updated: 2026-07-28
change: "Created as a fashion sub-page under the history section (egypt region)"
requester: internal
reason: "Per the owner's decision, fashion lives under each history era"
---

## Overview

In this age when Egypt became an arena for great powers, dress stood between tradition and the foreign.

## Key garments and style

Priests and nobles still wore pleated linen, wigs and broad collars, keeping the ancient style, while trade with Greece and the Levant brought foreign fabrics and designs.

## Transition

With Alexander's conquest and the founding of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Greek dress entered the court.