They are
fresh from the coiffeur’s hand with hair frisé and curled about
the head and shoulders; it is confined by a band over the fore-
head and falls down the back in long separate tresses, twisted
round with strings of beads and jewels. In some cases the locks
above the forehead curve down in a curious way above the
shoulder. The sleeves are puffed, and the constricted girdles and
flounced skirts equally recall quite modern fashions. A narrow
band appears across the chest, which suggests a diaphanous
chemise, but the nipples of the breasts indicated beneath these-
in one case the pendent breasts themselves- give a décolleté
effect. The dresses are gaily colored with bands of blue, red,
and yellow, showing white stripes and at times black striations
indicative of reticulated and scaled designs like those of the
Processional Fresco. (III: 49)
