(Right) Model wearing a Peplos dress. Some models, introduced in the market in the 1920s and commercialised under the name of Peplos, included a section of cloth, known in ancient Greece as the apoptygma, that was folded to cover the torso for about a third of the length of the upper side of the gown. (Left) Delphos dress (1909) by Mariano Fortuny at Palazzo Fortuny. In terms of style, the dress was mainly inspired by the Hellenistic classical sculpture of the Charioteer of Delphi, discovered in 1896.
{}