Athena gave Pandora her distinctive clothing and ornaments in Hesiod’s account.
In Works and Days, Athena is among the gods who prepare Pandora after Hephaestus shapes her from earth. She dresses her and gives her appropriate adornment. The details reinforce Athena’s association with skilled craft, textile work, and civilized arts, although the poem distributes Pandora’s attributes among several deities.
Pandora’s preparation is deliberately presented as a divine production. Gods contribute beauty, charm, speech, music, and other qualities before Hermes brings deceptive intelligence and persuasive language. This sequence makes Pandora a constructed figure whose appearance and abilities are assembled for Zeus’s plan.
Athena is often identified chiefly as a goddess of wisdom and warfare, but ancient tradition also connects her with weaving and handicraft. That wider portfolio makes her clothing-related role in the Pandora story less surprising than it may first appear.