Gardner, Percy: The principles of Greek art (London, 1924)

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DRESS AND DRAPERY

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combination of the Ionian and the Dorian dress on monu-
ments.

There are two garments which belong especially to the
Dorian dress, whether of men or women : these are, the sleeve-
less chiton and the cloak, whether the ample himation or the
smaller chlamys. Dorian girls are usually represented in art
as clad in a single heavy chiton, or garment without sleeves,
hanging from the shoulders and fastened upon them by two

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Fig. 36. —I., II., III.

heavy clasps or fibulae. A closer examination shows that this
garment is often not in any way sewn or made up, but consists
only of an oblong piece of cloth folded in a particular way.
The above three diagrams will show how it was put on. An
oblong piece of material was taken (Fig. 36, I.), Imon,1 and
doubled over at the line ab, when it presented the form abon,
where the portion am is doubled, an overfall. This was again
doubled at the line cd, and folded backward so as to leave the

1 From Gardner and Jevons, Manual of Greek Antiquities, p. 53.