The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1908)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · New York, The McClure Co.; London, E. Grant Richards · leaf 52
ccidentaloccurrence. There seems not the slightest doubt but that wecan trace the coat from the shawl. A simple im-provement in the latter is to join two edges of theshawl together and make a tunic. Such a tubulargarment was used in Greece, and, with some slightmodifications, is worn by Egyptian… … Fig, 2.—Sketch showing the development of the tunic.In this stage it has no arms. tunic, and how easily this could be derived from ashawl can be seen by putting a narrow one over theshoulders and lifting up the arms as shown in Figure 3.The material has only to be sewn together under thearms, and…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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