She was the first queen to reign alone with no king beside her. However, although she was accepted as a woman almost without question, she still referred to herself as king and wore a fake beard to look like a man as there was no mechanism for a 'queen'.
I don't know what the word for the Egyptian beard is per se, but the strap-on, fake beard is noted as being called the postiche.See http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3365However, upon further research, postiche turns out to be a french word meaning,1. Something false; a sham.2. A small hairpiece; a toupee.See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/posticheI doubt this answers your question. Sorry.
Actually, most men in ancient Egypt were relatively clean-shaven and did not grow beards, mainly for sanitary reasons(lice). Pharaohs, however, wore false beards as symbols of power. A curved beard (eg. Tutankhamun's death mask), is a symbol of immortality or of being a god.
The viziers wore long robes
She wore very rich dresses and gold heavy jewelery, and eyeliner in the typical Egyptian style, and she wore her hair in a bun if not in a wig
yes she wore a false beard to represent her strength and power
Queen Hatshepsut (she called herself King, not Queen)
Pharaohs did not each have an individual "symbol", but they had hieroglyphs that spelled out all their names and titles.In the case of the queen we called "Hatshepsut", her name was written with signs spelling out the words ht.shpswt, meaning "foremost of noble women".
Cleopatra is not known for wearing a fake beard, but if she for some reason would want one, all she would have to do was order it. The only female Egyptian ruler who was depicted wearing a fake beard was Hatsheput, as in her time the false beard that the pharaohs wore symbolized their divinity and authority. Cleopatra lived in a different time than Hatsheput.
The reason pharaohs of Ancient Egypt ( usually a man ) would wear a false beard is because the gods of Ancient Egypt, for example, Ra, the first king of the gods, Osiris the second king of the gods and Horus the third king of the gods, including all male gods wore a false beard. The pharaohs were considered a living walking god. So they wore a false beard like the gods.
Hatshepsut wore this as it was a symbol of Kingship.
the pharaohs usually wore white linen that wrapped around the waist and is pleated. they also wore a false beard.
Hatshepsut wore a false beard for religious and official ceremonies. It was not to pretend to be a man, it was official gab that the pharaoh had to wear for certain occasions.
Hatshepsut
King Tut wore Egyptian clothing.
Queen Hatshepsut
In 1535, King Henry VIII of England, who wore a beard himself, introduced a tax on beards. The tax was a graduated tax, varying with the wearer's social position.