Thus the evidence of art, in the dark period of, say, 900-700 B.C., inclines me to believe that women sometimes wore shaped and sewn bodices and skirts, or jackets and skirts; sometimes a strait brooched and girdled peplos, not flowing, not trailing, not Homeric; that there was none of the Homeric uniformity of attire. Varieties of fashion are not discordant with feminine nature.
[1] Studien zur Ilias, von Carl Robert, Berlin, 1901.
[2] The Menzies tartan is of white and pink checks, which the artist renders lovingly.
[3] Schliemann, Tiryns, plate xvii. Studniczka, Altgr. Tracht.
[4] Leaf, Iliad, vol. ii. p. 596.
[5] Iliad, v. 425, xiv. 180, xviii. 401.
[6] Leaf, Iliad, vol. ii. pp. 595-598.
[7] Ridgeway, Early Age of Greece, vol. i. pp. 553-577.
[8] Tiryns, plate xvii.