. Ancient Greek female costume : illustrated by one hundred and twelve plates and numerous smaller illustrations ; with descriptive letterpress and descriptive passages from the works of Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Xenophon, Lucian, and other Greek authors . pieces sewed together on thesides. Sometimes it remained sleeveless,only offered openings for the bare armsto pass through, and was confined overthe shoulders by means of clasps or but-tons; at other times it had very longand wide sleeves; and these were notunfrequently, as in the figures of Mi
. Ancient Greek female costume : illustrated by one hundred and twelve plates and numerous smaller illustrations ; with descriptive letterpress and descriptive passages from the works of Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Xenophon, Lucian, and other Greek authors . pieces sewed together on thesides. Sometimes it remained sleeveless,only offered openings for the bare armsto pass through, and was confined overthe shoulders by means of clasps or but-tons; at other times it had very longand wide sleeves; and these were notunfrequently, as in the figures of Minervaand the bearded Bacchus, gathered upunder the armpits, so as still to leavethe arms in a great measure bare. Mostusually, however, the body of the tunicbranched out intoa pair of tight sleeves, reaching to near the elbow, which in the most ancient dresses were close, with a broad stiff band running down the seams, and in more modern habiliments open in their whole length, and only con-fined by means of small buttons carried down the arms, and placed so near the edge of the stuff as in their interval to show the skin. In very richly embroidered tunics the sleeves sometimes descended to the wrists, in others they hardly reached halfway down the upper arm. The tunic was worn by females p-j jg. THE USE OF THE GIRDLE. 27 either quite loose or confined by a girdle ; and this girdle was either drawn tight round the waist, or loosely slung round the loins. Often when the tunic was very long, and would otherwise have entangled the feet, it was drawn over the girdle in such a way as to conceal the latter en-tirely underneath its folds. It is not uncommon to see two girdles of different widths worn together, the one very high up, and the other very low down, so as to form be-yv^ ■ tween the LP^ fib^ two in the tunic a puck-ered inter-val; but this fashion was only applied to shorttunics by Diana, by the woodnymphs, and by other females fondof the chase, the foot-race, and suchother
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