[183] Fig. 45 (_i_ and _j_). [184] Fig. 45 (_k_). More than one allusion is made in literature to some kind of hat worn by women; in Theocritus (_Idyll_, xv., 39), Praxinoa, when going out to the festival of Adonis, asks her maid for her wrap and hat (θολία). In the _Œdipus Coloneus_[185] Antigone recognises Ismene from a distance by the Thessalian hat which she wears as a protection against the heat of the sun. The words used are κυνῆ Θεσσαλίς, which seem to imply that the hat was made of some kind of skin, probably felt, and resembled the men’s “petasos,” which originated in Thessaly or Thrace; its shape may have been slightly different. The Tanagra statuettes frequently represent women wearing a broad-brimmed hat with high pointed crown.[186] [185] 313. [186] Fig. 15. VIII FOOTGEAR The practice of covering the feet seems to have varied somewhat among the Greeks. In all probability it was the custom to go barefoot indoors, and the habit prevailed among certain classes of going always unshod in the street also. It was a mark of hardihood in the Spartan youths always to go barefoot, and at Athens, in addition to the lower orders, who probably never wore shoes, philosophers and those who affected a simple life were in the habit of going unshod. That Socrates rarely covered his feet is proved by more than one reference in Plato’s Dialogues;—Phædrus[187] speaks of him as ἀεὶ ἀνυπόδητος, “always unshod,” and in the _Symposium_[188] we learn that for the occasion of Agathon’s banquet Socrates has washed and put on his shoes, ἃ ὀλιγάκις ἐποίει, “which he seldom did.” [187] Plato, _Phædrus_, 229 A. [188] 174 A. Other references in literature show that he was not the only philosopher who preferred to have his feet untrammelled.[189] [189] Aristophanes, _The Clouds_, 103; Theocritus, XIV., 6. The normal fashion, however, for people of good breeding was to wear sandals or shoes out of doors, and we learn from Aristophanes[190] that the Athenians at least were particular about the fit;—to “swim about” in large boots was a mark of boorishness. Xenophon[191] notices the division of labour in the shoemakers’ trade, where he mentions at least four different hands employed in making a pair of shoes. [190] _Knights_, 321. [191] _Cyropædia_, xviii., 2, 5. [Illustration: FIG. 46.—Sandals and Shoes. _Face page_ 117.]