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Banks of the Nile, Egypt 1851 E185110 Costume Drape garmet covering the front and back of the body and leaving the side bare. ML. Actions This woman walks away from the Nile river with a jug of water on her head. She wears a garment which is open from the shoulder to the ankle, where it is fastened. The garment is open at the side permitting a full side view of the figure in motion (1). Commentary Even today people in some parts of the world walk around, for all practical purposes, naked. For more on the Orientalist view of the world, see The Classical Bath in the Bikini Science Times. Source Picture credited to an "Oriental Album" published by James Augustus St. John in England. Scanned from Bernard Rudosky, Are Clothes Modern?, Paul Thobald, Chicago, 1947, p. 214. 1 picture. |
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