Greek dress At the rural areas, a popular clothing was the "fustanella", a traditional skirt-like garment. Fustanella was worn also by the klephts and the armatoloi. and predominantly by the Arvanites of Greece as described by foreign travelers. Apart from them, the wealthy Greeks of the urban centres adopted the Western European-style dress. In the independent Greece, Otto and Amalia were the first to be interested in fashion matters. Amalia created a romantic folksy court dress, which became a national Greek costume still known as the "Amalía dress". It follows the Biedermeier style, with a loose-fitting, white cotton or silk shirt, often
A-line (clothing) A-line (clothing) An A-line skirt is a skirt that is fitted at the hips and gradually widens towards the hem, giving the impression of the shape of a capital letter A. The term is also used to describe dresses and coats with a similar shape. The term was first used by the French couture designer Christian Dior as the label for his collection of spring 1955. The "A-Line" collection's feature item, then the "most wanted silhouette in Paris", was a "fingertip-length flared jacket worn over a dress with a very full, pleated skirt". Although an A-shape, this silhouette was not