writes, “Respectable women did nothing to draw attention to themselves.… A veil or hood constituted a warning: it signified that the wearer was a respectable woman …” (“Body Politics in Ancient Rome,” p. 315; cf. pp. 296–337; similarly, Martin, The Corinthian Body, pp. 229–49). As Roland Barthes has well argued, we are entirely familiar with uses of dress codes and choices or format of furniture to signify moods, attitudes, and aspirations to perceptions of social class, rather than comfort or utility