Fresco

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)