Pompeiian women\'s muscle shirt?

[richsc]

In the Latin textbook "Ecce Romani" edition 2, there is what must be a wall painting of a woman wearing what appears to be a muscle tshirt, that is, instead of fastening all along the shoulders and down the arm, just two pieces of fabric narrow from the front and go up and around the neck. I can't see any pins on the shoulders, and the neck hole looks too small to put the head through, so it is a puzzling garment. The illustration itself looks like a chalk drawing, but very detailed.<br>
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I have not seen this type of clothing in any representation of Roman women's tunica or stola. Maybe we're missing a lot as perhaps many wall paintings from Pompeii etc have never been published?<br>
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The book credits this as a photo from Elizabeth Lyding Will of Amherst College. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub27.ezboard.com/bromancivtalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=richsc>Richsc</A> at: 7/20/03 6:41 am<br></i>