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Its what classicists often refer to as an Ionic chiton : Its long and wide with sleeves (not all Ionic chitons had pronounced sleeves, but all had seaming of some sort at the shoulders), as differentiated from the Doric chitons and peploi worn by most mainland Greeks of the Archaic age, which were less broad, didnt have sleeves or proper seaming at the shoulder, and could be short, in the case of the men (Abrahams 60)