Amalia of Oldenburg was queen consort of Greece from 1836 to 1862 as the spouse of King Otto (1815\u00a0\u2013\u00a01867).\u00a0As the daughter of Duke Paul Frederick Augustus of Oldenburg (later Grand Duke of Oldenburg), she was born a duchess of Oldenburg, though that title was never used in Greece.<\/p>\n
When she arrived in Greece as a queen in 1837, she had an immediate impact on social life and fashion. She realized that her attire ought to emulate that of her new people, and so she created a romantic folksy court dress, which became a national Greek costume still known as the Amalia dress. <\/sup>It follows the Biedermeier style, with a loose-fitting, white cotton or silk shirt, often decorated with lace at the neck and handcuffs, over which a richly embroidered jacket or vest is worn, usually of dark blue or claret velvet. The skirt was ankle-length, unpressed-pleated silk, the color usually azure. It was completed with a soft cap or fez with a single, long, golden silk tassel, traditionally worn by married women, or with the kalpaki (atoque) of the unmarried woman, and sometimes with a black veil for church. This dress became the usual attire of all Christian townswomen in both Ottoman Empire\u00a0\u2013\u00a0occupied and liberated Balkan lands as far north as Belgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11700,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[246,420],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11725","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-accessories-2","product_cat-pocket-mirrors","product_shipping_class-free-shipping-en","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11725"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11725"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellenic-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}