Astute fashion observers quickly realize that fashion is cyclical. Silhouettes, colors, motifs, and styles disappear, only to reappear years, or even decades, later. Some styles, like the diaphanous drapes of ancient Greco-Roman dress, seem to inspire more revivals than others. Based on the soft, unstructured garments of ancient Greece and Rome, classically inspired dress appeared at the turn of the nineteenth-century, and again as the century drew to a close. In the last decade of the…