Moreover, Mr. Walters, judging from vase-paintings, says, "The Ionic costume is introduced about 500 B.C., but its vogue does not seem to have lasted long at Athens."[30] Perdrizet thought that the archaic costume more resembled the Mycenaean (or Aegean) than the Doric style; while Mr. Wace (in the catalogue of the museum at Sparta), Mr. Leaf, Mr. Dawkins, and others hold that the archaic dress is merely a long chiton tied at the waist. This question of the late survival, or revival, of non-Homeric Aegean female costume is thus delicate and obscure, though I have little or no doubt that it did in many cases survive or was revived. The woman in the archaic sepulchral monument from Etruria (British Museum) wears a short jacket, and a very brief skirt; and a woman in a leaden figurine of Sparta wears only a girdle and a kirtle. She is running, and has thrown off her jacket or bodice. An archaic Victory, a terra cotta in the British Museum, wears only a very short skirt.[31] The Ariadne of an archaic Corinthian jewel, in a belted skirt, with no bodice, has already been cited. Thus the evidence of art, in the dark period of, say, 900-700 B.C., inclines me to believe that women sometimes wore shaped and sewn bodices and skirts, or jackets and skirts; sometimes a strait brooched and girdled peplos, not flowing, not trailing, not Homeric; that there was none of the Homeric uniformity of attire. Varieties of fashion are not discordant with feminine nature. [1] _Studien zur Ilias_, von Carl Robert, Berlin, 1901. [2] The Menzies tartan is of white and pink checks, which the artist renders lovingly. [3] Schliemann, _Tiryns_, plate xvii. Studniczka, _Altgr. Tracht_. [4] Leaf, _Iliad_, vol. ii. p. 596. [5] _Iliad_, v. 425, xiv. 180, xviii. 401. [6] Leaf, _Iliad_, vol. ii. pp. 595-598. [7] Ridgeway, _Early Age of Greece_, vol. i. pp. 553-577. [8] _Tiryns_, plate xvii. [9] In northern Aragon. [10] _Scripta Minoa_, vol. i. p. 282. [11] _B. S. A_., vol. xiii. pp. no, 113. [12] _Journal of the Anthrop. Institute_, vol. xxx., 1900, p. 203, fig. 2. Evans on "Mycenaean Cyprus." [13] Walters, _History of Ancient Pottery_, vol. ii. p. 270. [14] _Iliad_, xiv. 175 _et seqq_. [15] _Greek Dress_, p. 30. [16] Mrs. Langloh Parker, _Australian Legendary Tales_. [17] See fig. 2 in Roscher's _Lexikon_, ii. 2. 3007. [18] _Greek Dress_, p. 44. [19] _Ibid_., fig. 10. [20] Here, it must be said, Mr. Dawkins dissents, not seeing any difference in the two costumes. I think that is because he supposes the François artist not to be able to draw what he sees; for the dresses seem, in fact, to me different. [21] Herodotus, v. 87. [22] Pinza, _Hermes_, 1909, p. 526. [23] _Ibid._ pp. 527, 528. [24] _Greek Dress_, p. 60. [25] _Greek Costume_, p. 60. [26] Pinza, _Hermes_, p. 538. [27] _Ibid_. p. 526. [28] Layard, _Nineveh and Babylon_, p. 152.