Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 179
DRESS AND DRAPERY 157 X Indian or the overcoat of the soldier, carried about to be used for any necessary purpose. It is also obvious that it could be put on in a great variety of ways, so as to produce a number of artistic effects. Women would very commonly pass it not under the arm, but over both… … tor usually omitted the Fig. 39. — From a Greek Amphora.1 chiton in order to dis- of breast and shoulder, just as in play the nude forms the case of soldiers he usually omits the body armour of breastplate and backplate, the stiff lines of which would be in sculpture unpleasing. Occasionally in…
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