ON THE ANTIQUE GREEK DRESS FOR WOMEN 41 



as has been already explained, the length from a to e (Fig. 1) 

 is greater than the width of the shawl at the centre, where the 

 folds barely cover the zone. Mr. Leslie, in his graceful figures 

 at the Fountain, has failed to seize this peculiarity, and each 

 figure has a large bag over the stomach which, if seen in real 

 life, would be grotesque. The folds in Fig. 8 are hardly 

 sufficiently numerous, and this is especially visible when the 

 arm is raised. This arises partly from the fact that even an 

 Indian Chudder is thicker than the stuff used by the high-born 

 Greeks, and partly from the difficulty of folding the dress by 

 male fingers ; the Greek tire-women folded materials to perfec- 

 tion, having practised the art all their lives ; the writer never 



FIG. 7. 



FIG. 8. 



could fold anything until practice taught him to fold this tunic. 

 After a few attempts at folding, the ladies found that they could 

 stitch the plaits where the stitching was concealed under the 

 zone. This little row of plaits is parallel to the bottom of the 

 gown, although the result in the overhanging folds is the arch 

 drawn. 



Let us recapitulate the results arrived at : 



1. The Chudder shawls made now in India are exactly of 

 the right size to make a Greek tunic, and fold very .much as 

 Greek drapery does. It is not impossible that the material and 

 size of loom may have remained in the East unaltered for the 

 last two or three thousand years. 



