The hair over the forehead of Apollo Belvidere is an example of a corobulus. And the hair was twined or spun around a spindle, in the shape of a cone, and one or more of these projected from the crown of the head, with a golden grasshopper for ornament, as seen in Fig. 10. Four hundred and eighty years B.C., hats were not worn as a rule, and dress was in simple style. It was considered improper for women to be seen on the street, and their appearance there occurred only on exceptional occasions. [Illustration: 8 9 10 11 12 Athens.] On journeys, women wore a light, broad-brimmed petasos, which Figs. 8 and 11 represent, as a protection from the sun. At a late period the head-dress of Athenian ladies, at home and for the street, consisted, in addition to the customary veil, chiefly of different contrivances for holding together their plentiful hair. At an early period, Greek women wore longer or shorter veils, which covered the face up to the eyes, and, falling over the neck and back in heavy folds, covered the whole upper part of the body. We often find instances of the exquisite taste of these head-dresses in statuary and gems of ancient origin; at the same time it must be confessed that most modern fashions, even the ugly ones, have their models, if not in Greek, at least in Roman antiquity. A ribbon used to be worn around the head, tied in front with an elaborate knot. The net—after it the ’kerchief—was developed from the simple ribbon, in the same manner as straps on the feet gradually became boots. The head-dress of the women, as well as their costumes, were different at different periods, as figures on preceding page illustrate. [Illustration: 13 14 15 16 Greece.] Homer frequently mentions the veil as a part of the attire of the Grecian and Trojan ladies. Of Helen, he says:— O’er her fair face a snowy veil she threw, And, softly sighing, from the loom withdrew. The ancient head-dress of the Irish appears to be but little known till the twelfth century, when it is said to have been much the same as that worn by the Southern Britons. [Illustration: 17 18 England, A.D. 450.] In ancient Britain, from the earliest time to the arrival of the Saxons, A.D. 450, we can find no mention made of ladies’ head-dress, and but little is mentioned until about 1066, and even at this date not any style existed, although Anglo-Saxon females of all ranks wore a veil, or long piece of linen or silk wrapped around the head and neck. This part of their dress was exceedingly unbecoming, perhaps partly owing to the want of skill in the artists, and this head-dress was seldom worn except when they went from home (see figures on preceding page), as the hair itself was cherished and ornamented with as much attention as in modern times. In an Anglo-Saxon poem the heroine is called, “The maid of the Creator with twisted locks.”