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DRESS AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT
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Decidedly later, and clearly of Eastern origin, is the chiton,
or shirt, a cut and sewn linen garment which fits like an
onion peel,1 in sharp contrast with the mere web
of woolen girt about the loins as an apron or
thrown over the shoulders as a cloak. We must regard the
The Chiton
Figs. 55 and 56. Bronze Statuettes
chiton as supplanting the apron by slow degrees, as foreign
fashions are wont to work down gradually from the prince
1 Odyssey, xix. 233.
161
Decidedly later, and clearly of Eastern origin, is the chiton,
or shirt, a cut and sewn linen garment which fits like an
onion peel,1 in sharp contrast with the mere web
of woolen girt about the loins as an apron or
thrown over the shoulders as a cloak. We must regard the
The Chiton
Figs. 55 and 56. Bronze Statuettes
chiton as supplanting the apron by slow degrees, as foreign
fashions are wont to work down gradually from the prince
1 Odyssey, xix. 233.