No. 18 Long Robes of White My Shoulders Must Embrace, To Speak My Lineage of Ethereal Race
Book II. Line 553.
As the art of spinning is said to have been invented by Oella, it is no improbable fiction to imagine that they first assumed these white garments of cotton as an emblem of the sun, in order to inspire that reverence for their persons which was necessary to their success. Such a dress may likewise be supposed to have continued in the family as a badge of royalty.