 ... foment the exuberances of fashion and little taste through which to check its pruriencies, the Romans carried to a great pitch the shapeless extravagance of some parts of their attire, as may be seen in the absurd head-dresses of the busts of Roman...  Costume of the Ancientsby Thomas Hope - 1841 - 50 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1879 - 528 pages
...distance. 2 They had also in their armies archers and slingers. The Romans, like all other nations, had peculiar dresses appropriated to peculiar offices...dignities. The Flamens or priests of Jupiter wore a cap or helmet, from its conical form called apex, with a ball of cotton wound round the spike. 3 The... | |
 | John Howard Payne - Rome - 1878 - 192 pages
...in the absurd head-dresses of the busts of Roman matrons, preserved in the Capitol. 82 APPENDIX. " The Romans, like the Greeks, had peculiar dresses...priests that ministered to other deities wore the infula, or twisted fillet, from which descended on each side, along the neck, flowing ribands. "Wreaths... | |
 | Edwin Booth - 1899 - 440 pages
...the absurd head-dresses of the busts of Roman matrons, preserved in the Capitol. • 82 APPENDIX. " The Romans, like the Greeks, had peculiar dresses...priests that ministered to other deities wore the infula, or twisted fillet, from which descended on each side, along the neck, flowing ribands. " Wreaths... | |
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