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 31
hing 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… … 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…
Costume -- Greece · Women -- Greece
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