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THE TOILETTE IN GREECE.
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commode already mentioned. False hair seems also
to have been very generally used, and in great quan-
tities, both curled and frizzled.
In Greece, married women were distinguished from
the unmarried by the manner in which the hair was
parted in front.
It seems to have been the custom for women always
to cover their faces with a veil when they went out,
or appeared in public, as we read of Penelope :
“ Then from her lodgings went the beauteous dame,
And to hei' much-expecting courtiers came;
There veil’d before the door she stood.”
A veil seems also to have been worn as an emblem of
mourning by the ancient Greeks :
“ Her face wrap’d in a veil declar’d her woes.”
Nor does this fashion appear to have belonged to
women only, for Theseus thus addressed Adrastus,
when he came to him after his loss at Thebes :
“ Speak out, unfold your head, restrain your tears.”
No part of the dress of the ancients has given rise
to more discussions and disputes than their chaussure,
and the passages we find relating to this subject in
different authors are not sufficiently explicit to throw
much light upon it. The ancient statues enable
us to judge of the shape, but do not enlighten us as
to the colour of the boots and sandals. Pythagoras
ordered his disciples to wear sandals made of the bark
of trees. Strabo tells us that, these sandals beino-
found too thin to protect the feet, they were sometimes
made with copper soles ; he also mentions that Phi-
393
commode already mentioned. False hair seems also
to have been very generally used, and in great quan-
tities, both curled and frizzled.
In Greece, married women were distinguished from
the unmarried by the manner in which the hair was
parted in front.
It seems to have been the custom for women always
to cover their faces with a veil when they went out,
or appeared in public, as we read of Penelope :
“ Then from her lodgings went the beauteous dame,
And to hei' much-expecting courtiers came;
There veil’d before the door she stood.”
A veil seems also to have been worn as an emblem of
mourning by the ancient Greeks :
“ Her face wrap’d in a veil declar’d her woes.”
Nor does this fashion appear to have belonged to
women only, for Theseus thus addressed Adrastus,
when he came to him after his loss at Thebes :
“ Speak out, unfold your head, restrain your tears.”
No part of the dress of the ancients has given rise
to more discussions and disputes than their chaussure,
and the passages we find relating to this subject in
different authors are not sufficiently explicit to throw
much light upon it. The ancient statues enable
us to judge of the shape, but do not enlighten us as
to the colour of the boots and sandals. Pythagoras
ordered his disciples to wear sandals made of the bark
of trees. Strabo tells us that, these sandals beino-
found too thin to protect the feet, they were sometimes
made with copper soles ; he also mentions that Phi-