. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 484 THE TOILETTE OF THE BRIDE: in the museum of Florence. Before the introduction of the pallaBoman ladies used to wear a shorter and tighter square cloak,called ricinhim, which afterwards seems to have been worn onlyat certain religious ceremonies. Similar articles of dress werethe rica and suffibulum, the former worn by the Flaminica, the latterby the Yestals in the manner of a veil. Fig. 471 reproduces a. Fig. 471. graceful picture found in a room at Herculaneum (1761), withseveral others, leaning against the wall. It is generallydesignated as the Toilet
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. 484 THE TOILETTE OF THE BRIDE: in the museum of Florence. Before the introduction of the pallaBoman ladies used to wear a shorter and tighter square cloak,called ricinhim, which afterwards seems to have been worn onlyat certain religious ceremonies. Similar articles of dress werethe rica and suffibulum, the former worn by the Flaminica, the latterby the Yestals in the manner of a veil. Fig. 471 reproduces a. Fig. 471. graceful picture found in a room at Herculaneum (1761), withseveral others, leaning against the wall. It is generallydesignated as the Toilette of the Bride/ On a throne isseated the still youthful mother of the bride, dressed in the stola,tied round the body with the strophium. The lower part of thebody is covered by the folds of the palla ; down her back floats a MATERIALS AND COLOURS OF DRESSES. 485 long veil fastened to the back of her head. Her right arm tenderlyembraces the neck of her daughter; both are gazing at the bridestanding in the middle of the room. The stola of this, hersecond, daughter shows the broad instita already mentioned ; itsopen sleeves, or those of the tunica underneath, are fastened tothe upper arm by means of buttons. She wears a palla of thetoga kind over her other garments. A maid-servant, standingbehind her, is clad in a stola (with sleeves reaching down to thewrists) and a palla. Up to the end of the Republic the only materials used forthese d
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