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Costume, Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical, is by Mrs. Aria. In the introductory note, Percy Anderson is quoted as saying that, broadly speaking, of all costume, the fashion of any period is distinguished primarily by the way its wearer dresses her hair. The text says the stola was worn over the tunic, came as low as the ankles, and was fastened round the body by a girdle.
The dress of the boys was marked by a change after the age of seventeen, the text says, when they laid aside the purple-bordered toga in favour of the toga purely white. The text describes a woman's ordinary toilet as composed of baggy trousers concealed beneath a long flowing robe of red and white figured silk, surmounted by a second shapeless garment to the knees in the nature of a coat. The text asks the reader to imagine an ancient Roman in a periwig and flowered gown after the Queen Anne fashion.
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