McQueen’s diaphanously draped green dress recalls the sleeves and torso of a belted Ionian chiton. Further revealing the body, a shaped sheer band of net along the waist and hips, encrusted with beads and crystals, resembles the lower portion of the molded cuirass (lorica) worn by the Roman military to protect their torsos. A similar bodice is depicted in Jacques-Antoine Beaufort’s The Oath of Brutus, on view on the adjacent, in which it is worn under a red cloak (or chlamys).