05-29-2011, 04:37 PM
There is another aspect of squamata where it can in fact be tailored to the body, this can be done if the shirt is given it's opening at the back. This opening needs only to be from just above the buttocks up to the top of the shirt and a leather lace system can be used to close it.
When fitting the scales and one reaches the hips just dropping a scale out of the circumference then maybe two for a few rows then going back to our original number in the circumference can create a waist line that fits the body not unlike that shown by Caballo in his pic's of Piazza Armerina. The scale of the Dura Europas however do not show this waisting of the shirts, and one can't truly say if or not the sleeves are in fact simply fitted later to a more cylinder style of shirt.
When fitting the scales and one reaches the hips just dropping a scale out of the circumference then maybe two for a few rows then going back to our original number in the circumference can create a waist line that fits the body not unlike that shown by Caballo in his pic's of Piazza Armerina. The scale of the Dura Europas however do not show this waisting of the shirts, and one can't truly say if or not the sleeves are in fact simply fitted later to a more cylinder style of shirt.
Brian Stobbs
