Greek - Roman Fashion

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=10 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Knowledge Box Archive </B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CCCC66" FACE="Arial" >|   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Knowledge Box Archive "><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="005f4010.png" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Greek - Roman Fashion</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Womens Fashion through History"><U><I>Medieval Fashion</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Womens Fashion through History"><U>back <<</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>from - Ovid</I></div> <bR> <div> It has been said that with the mere names of the things that composed Corinna's trousseau Ovid could have made a poem. First came the little flimsy garment woven of silk or linen, and artfully embroidered. Then the <I>castula</I>, which reached up to the throat, and the <I>indusiata</I>, which went on over it. There were the <I>brassières</I> to hold in a too voluminous bosom; the scarf which fell about her white shoulders from her lofty head dress; veils of every hue. As to the different dresses that a Lesbia, a Corinna or a Neaera might wear, one would have a train like the dress worn to-day by a great lady at Court. There was a wonderful diaphanous thing called the "laconic." There was the <I>crocula</I>, a short saffron-colored dress; there was the <I>impluvia</I>, a dress worn on days of mourning, or when it was raining. As for tunics and cloaks, they were as divers as the dresses. There was the long tunic with a fringe, the short one just reaching to the knee and flounced with fur; the <I>calthula</I>, a sort of yellow mantilla; tunics closely woven, tunics loosely woven. There was a marvelous thing called the man-killer, because it was caught up high at the bottom and liberally displayed the wearer's person.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0efa8c50.jpg" border=0 width="168" height="453" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">             <IMG SRC="0f5dec50.jpg" border=0 width="222" height="453" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">         <IMG SRC="0f6d1c50.jpg" border=0 width="209" height="453" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> There was a bewildering assortment of implements and instruments in Corinna's dressing-room and on Corinna's dressing-table: scissors, razors, files, various brushes for the teeth, the nails, the hair, combs of every shape, a preparation of burnt cork for darkening the eyelashes; soaps, pastes, cosmetics, phials of scent; "strigils," that is, little ivory currycombs for rubbing and cleansing the skin after the bath; hair-nets, wigs, false teeth; oiled pumice-stone for giving a polish to the arms, neck and shoulders; paint red and white; pomades both emollient and astringent; necklaces and earrings; hair-pins in infinite variety, gold chains, brooches, bracelets, rings, cameos, artificial flowers, chaplets enriched with pearls and precious stones, butterflies, grasshoppers, flies made out of gems, cloaks embroidered and fringed, scarves inwrought with silver and gold, girdles sparkling with precious stones, frontlets, ribands, veils, shoes and so on <I>ad infinitum</I>.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0f7ceab0.jpg" border=0 width="206" height="427" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      <IMG SRC="0f1fdab0.jpg" border=0 width="253" height="427" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="0f8b9ab0.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="427" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0f9eeb40.jpg" border=0 width="238" height="436" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">             <IMG SRC="0f3dbb40.jpg" border=0 width="219" height="436" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0f4b0170.jpg" border=0 width="432" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Womens Fashion through History"><U>back <<</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>