Children did not have to worry about clothes because they didn’t wear any. Women wore a tube dress, a piece of fabric draped around their body with two straps at the top. Men wore a short skirt called a kilt. This kilt was held up with a knot or buckle. As time went on the short kilt became a long kilt.

Some Egyptians with short hair or no hair wore wigs. They shaved all the hair off their children’s heads except for a little bit on the top, which they braided. They let the braid grow for a long time. They called it " The Lock of Youth." Some people wore wigs with beads and curls to special places, on special days, or when they went to a party. In fact, when you went to a banquet a servant would tie grease in a cone shape to your head and then your wig would smell good. I think it would look like a party hat, don’t you? Even the pharaoh would wear a fake beard on special occasions.

Egyptians also used makeup and oils for their bodies. Some Egyptians wore red ochre henna (the powdered leaves of a plant ) on their lips and cheeks to look nice. They even had a special oil so when you went out in the sun your skin wouldn’t burn and crack. Some people wore heavy eye shadow.

To do all this they needed a mirror. Their mirror was a highly polished disk, usually made of bronze. This made the people think of the sun. By the end of the New Kingdom, it was considered a religious item. There were sacred carvings on the backs of the mirrors.