Image:Greek-womens-attire-Regency-Empire-influence-hypsizonos.gif

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Depictions of ancient Greek women's attire of the type that strongly influenced late 1790's clothing styles (especially in Paris). Five women shown with a belt around the outside of their garments worn fairly high:

Upper left - Bacchante, from J. Moyr Smith's Ancient Greek Female Costume (1882).

Upper right -- "Bacchante presenting the sacred fillet" from Thomas Hope's Costumes of the Greeks and Romans (1812).

Lower left: Depiction of goddess Hebe, from J. Moyr Smith's Ancient Greek Female Costume (1882).

Center -- Illustration from Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary (1876), intended to illustrate the words euzônos, euplokamis, zônê, kallizônos, kalliplokamos, kalumma, and kaluptrê

Lower Right -- Greek statue (ca. 300 B.C.?) from Adolf Furtwängler's Die Sammlung Sabouroff (1887).

For another illustration of this general type, see Image:Fig5Cingulum_d'apres_une_statue_grecque.gif

For an ancient Classical statue with similar attire, see Image:Autun rolin statuette.jpg

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