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There was little change in the way people dressed. There is some evidence that people started to weave some woollen clothes. They had started to keep sheep so this seems very likely. However woollen things, unlike the leather hides or animal skins also used as clothes, wouldn’t last when buried in the ground so our friendly archaeologists can't find any trace of it. My guess is people would wear woollen clothes in summer and their old skin ones in winter. Rain doesn’t run off wool like it does off animal skins. Wool also gets really heavy when wet so it wouldn’t be fun to walk around in all day. However it is amazing to think how these people found a way of weaving the wool from their sheep. They probably had an upright loom. When weaving there are two types of thread, the warp which goes vertically, and the weft, which is threaded between the warp horizontally. The loom would have been made out of wood. It’s funny how nowadays fashion changes so often but not then. Bronze jewellery would often adorn their clothes. If you wanted to make a circular pendant you would make it out of wax then cover it with clay, pressing the clay into the wax. You would then bake it in a fire so that the clay went hard and the wax melted. Next you would pour out the wax, having left a hole in your clay mould, pour in hot liquid bronze to replace the wax, let it all cool so the bronze went hard, chip off the clay and there is your bronze pendant. Hey, it is just like making a jelly.
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