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 (1882)
Smith, J. Moyr, 1839-1912 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 25
uds or buttons, or oneor both sides may be stitchedtogether as far as the armpits.All these modes have their repre-sentatives in Greek art [see plate9, fig. 8). The bottom edge willtrail on the ground; but when theunder part of the chiton is pulledup through the girdle {^mvlovaTp6(f)iov), enough to… … SOCKATES AND THE LADY. 21 daced by a single garment arranged as described. ThekoXtto? (kolpos) was tbe name applied to the picturesquefolds wliich were formed by the hanging corners of theloose edge of the chiton. These could be varied con-siderably by merely shifting the position of the pin…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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