That dress was a matter of important thought with woman there also, is beyond doubt; and the textures of the _chitons_ and _himations_, the proper colors of their bands and their girdles, caused much perplexity to the beautiful Greek maiden, as they have to the beautiful American of to-day. But the Greek seems to have escaped one great misery and mystery--_her fashions did not change_; no staff of designing men was working with swift brain, hand, and pencil, in Athens or Corinth, to perplex her delicate mind with fashion-books, thus forcing her into exquisite torture, and keeping her there. The pictures upon the vases continuing through many centuries, show no very marked changes in dress. Was woman, then, supremely happy? Who can say! Besides dress, there can be no question, from the large numbers of perfume-bottles and vases of clay, as well as from the quantity of those of glass found by Cesnola in his excavations, that a very great degree of luxury, if not of dandyism, was reached by the women as well as the men in that "good old day of Greece." We know something of the luxury, the lavish daintiness of Alcibiades and his friends, but very little of that of their wives. There was, however, an evil thing in Greece, and one which the Greek wife felt strongly, keenly--it was the _hetairai_, the _demi-monde_ of the great cities. Nowhere except in England and America has the virtue of married woman been held at so extreme and exalted a height, nowhere has its sale been lowered to such a depth, as in Athens.