Speaking From Experience
I have spent the last two weeks working on a Mycenaean costume in order to do a photoshoot for book images. However, the Fates have not blessed me with the ideal Mycenaean look, a skilled photographer, or madly awesome Photoshop skills.
Abandon hope, all ye who read further:
This is not a flattering look for a woman with extra pounds and no waist. Agreed? The whole look was executed in cotton broadcloth and calico. That wraparound skirt is very stiff and heavy, and considering that the real costume would have been sewn of linen and lightweight wool of a thread count much lower than today's machine woven fabrics, I just can't see a Mycenaean woman wearing it all day, every day, unless she's a noblewoman who doesn't work. And all Mycenaean women from the top down worked, so the everyday costume must have been the lower layers only.
Give my Mom a hand, please. She gamely did her best with my Linux digital camera while not making fun of my costume, which I was secretly afraid she might do. She doesn't always get what I'm about. Personally, I think she was too busy trying to figure out how to zoom and find that clicky button to take the pictures.
Let me say this about Photoshop: it offers the bestest, cheapest facelift/liposuction ever. Yet I can't seem to ground my images into the background. Seriously, it's video game bad. Behold the evidence:
How did I ever manage to do the cover for Helen's Daughter? Darned if I remember.