Theobject of this book is to give a continuous account of the dressworn by the people inhabiting Greek lands, from the earliest timesof which we have any record down to the Hellenistic age. The firstchapter stands somewhat apart from the rest, since it deals with thecostume of the race which occupied the Ægean shores before the realHellenic races arrived on the scene, and of which we have abundantremains in Crete and elsewhere within the Ægean area. The remainsfound at Mycenæ, Tiryns, and other so-called Mycenæan sites, seem tobe the last efforts of this dying civilization, which was replaced inthe period of invasion and conquest recorded in the Homeric poems. Ihave been unable to trace any continuous development from the dressof this pre-Hellenic people to that of classic Greece, and the markeddifference in the type of costume between the two periods bears outthe theory of a difference of race.

I have endeavoured to show that the dress described in the Homericpoems is of the same type as the dress of classic Greece, and ofthis I have traced the historic development, classifying[p. viii] it into two maindivisions, namely, Doric and Ionic. The simple and severe Doricdress contrasts with the more luxurious costume of the IonianGreeks, although there are many instances, from the fifth centuryand onwards, in which the two styles are blended. I have noted alsothe elements which probably came in from Northern Greece; these arechiefly the chlamys and p

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