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Fillet (clothing)

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A bronze reconstruction of the Diadumenos ("The Fillet-Bearer"), a statue by Polykleitos (5th century BC), depicting a youth binding his head with fillets[1]

A fillet is a type of headgear. It was originally worn in classical antiquity, especially in cultures of the Mediterranean, Levant and Persia, including Hellenic culture.

At that time, a fillet was a very narrow band of cloth, leather or some form of garland, frequently worn by athletes. It was also worn as a sign of royalty and became symbolized in later ages as a metallic ring which was a stylized band of cloth. Greeks called it diadema (διάδημα).

Julius Caesar refused to wear a diadema when Mark Antony offered it to him, and the Roman emperors who came after generally followed this practice until Constantine I, the first to Christianize the Roman Empire, who adopted the Greek emblem of royalty. Thereafter the diadem was worn by the Roman emperors as a symbol of sovereignty.

Earlier, it was used as a head-dress by Roman women.[2]

Later, in medieval times, a fillet was a type of headband worn by unmarried women, in certain monk hoods, usually with a wimple or barbette.[3] This is indicated in the sign language of said monks (who took oaths of silence), wherein a sweeping motion across the brow, in the shape of a fillet, indicated an unmarried woman.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Anna Anguissola, "Remembering the Greek Masterpieces: Observations on Memory and Roman Copies," in "Memoria Romanum": Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory, American Academy in Rome (University of Michigan Press, 2014), pp. 121–122, citing Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.55.
  2. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Diadema
  3. ^ a b Netherton, Robin; Gale R. Owen-Crocker (2005). Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Boydell & Brewer. p. 49. ISBN 9781843831235. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
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