Tailored Egyptian dress is the oldest ever found

摘要

It's the ultimate in retro fashion -an Egyptian woven dress (at least its remaining top half) that is now considered the oldest known piece of cut, fitted and tailored clothing. Radiocarbon dating puts the dress, recovered from an ancient Egyptian cemetery called Tarkhan, at between 5,100 and 5,400 years old. Analysis of a 2-centimeter-long thread from the V-necked, linen dress with pleated sleeves yielded the age estimate. Examples of similar, floor-length Egyptian dresses date to nearly 5,000 years ago, says archaeologist Alice Stevenson, curator of University College London's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, home to the Tarkhan Dress.