will have a serious time of it. While their mistress cools herself
with a huge peacock-feather fan, one maid is busy over her hair; a
second holds the round metallic mirror before her; a third stands
ready to extend the jewel box whence she can select finger rings,
earrings, gold armlets, chains for her neck and hair, as well as the
indispensable brooches whereon the stability of the whole costume
depends. When she rises to have her himation draped around her,
the directions she gives reveal her whole bent and character. A
dignified and modest matron will have it folded loosely around her
entire person, covering both arms and hands, and even drawing it
over her head, leaving eyes and nose barely visible. Younger ladies
will draw it close around the body so as to show the fine lines of
their waists and shoulders. And in the summer heat the himation
(for the less prudish) will become a light shawl floating loose
and free over the shoulders, or only a kind of veil drawn so as to
now conceal, now reveal, the face.

Children wear miniature imitations of the dress of their elders.
Boys are taught to toughen their bodies by refraining from thick
garments in cold weather. In hot weather they can frequently be
seen playing about with very little clothing at all!


36. Footwear and Head Coverings.--Upon his feet the Athenian
frequently wears nothing. He goes about his home barefoot; and not
seldom he enjoys the delight of running across the open greensward
with his unsandaled feet pressing the springing ground; but normally
when he walks abroad, he will wear SANDALS, a simple solid pair of
open soles tied to his feet by leather thongs passing between the
toes. For hard country walking and for hunting there is something