In the third book of his mock didactic poem, the Ars amatoria (Art of Love), Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) instructs women how to use artistic skill to produce beautiful looks when nature has no supplied sufficient beauty. He also warns against spending too much monet on expensively dyed clothing, such as the dibaphos or double dipped cloth that was consecutively dyed in two types of purple dye:

What now of dress? Put rich brocades aside and stuffs in Tyrian purple double-dyed. Now that of cheaper colours there's no lack, it's mad to bear one's fortune on one's back.

Source: Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars aniatoria 3.169-172, in Ovid The Love Poem, translated by A.D. Melville (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1990)