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| 9 | 245 | They are View more quotes about proud">proud of their slaves, and wish to see them, and display them If one had a beautiful kaiila, would one throw a blanket over it? So the brief tunic is a common slave garment. |
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| 9 | 242 | The culture does deem it important, and free women insist upon this, that a clear distinction be drawn between the free woman and the slave. |
| 9 | 243 | The most obvious way to mark this distinction publicly and conveniently is the collar, or its absence, and garmenture, say, the robes of concealment as against a tunic, or camisk. |
| 9 | 244 | One supposes that the slave might be dressed in a drab, form-concealing, shapeless sack, but men will not have it so. |
| 9 | 245 | They are proud of their slaves, and wish to see them, and display them If one had a beautiful kaiila, would one throw a blanket over it? So the brief tunic is a common slave garment. |
| 9 | 246 | Men will have it so. |
| 9 | 247 | Then, as might be expected, free women denounce the tunic as a shameful garment, and attempt, in terms of it, to shame its occupant. |
| 9 | 248 | This is sometimes effective, for a time, with a new slave, but, sooner or later, the slave, at least when no free women are present, comes to revel in the lightness and freedom of such a garment, and its flattering betrayal of her beauty, as opposed to the hobbling impediments of cumbersome robes and veils, however resplendent, well-layered, and colorful. |