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Post by lauragill » Fri October 3rd, 2014, 5:10 pm

I did the photo shoot I mentioned in the Deja Vu Book Covers thread. Only a few of the images really turned out, and only one really lent itself to Photoshop. I'll have to try again when the weather cools.

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I did learn that that overskirt is very stiff and heavy, even when made from a light cotton broadcloth. The ancient fabrics, the wool and linen, would have been even heavier. I can't imagine a Mycenaean woman wearing it everyday; it must have been for special occasions only.

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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Fri October 3rd, 2014, 7:17 pm

Definitely enhances the writing, though. Before I was a re-enactor, I KNEW all the pieces of renaissance dress. Now six or seven years in, when I write my characters, I know about their dress from the inside out. It adds a richness, not to mention fussing with the garb and accoutrements substitutes nicely for many a dialog tag.

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Post by lauragill » Sun October 5th, 2014, 3:43 am

While I was doing this project, wouldn't you know that this racy photograph of Idomeneus's wife among the ruins of Knossos appeared among Sir Arthur Evans' unpublished materials? What a coincidence! What would the Ashmolean have said had they known that genteel widower Sir Arthur was making time with spectral Mycenaean tarts while his work crew was out to lunch?

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