Some lovely Mycenaean/Minoan leaf cluster hairpins.


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It started with a search for a decent T-shirt and headgear to wear on Halloween.  Plus-size costumes never fit, because this size 18 girl is too short and not buxom enough to fit the proportions of mass-marketed plus-sized Halloween costumes.  Not to mention that all the size 1X's of the few costumes I was interested in were out of stock and I ( Read more... )

Forensic hairdresser Janet Stephens has some lovely videos demonstrating ancient Roman and one ancient Greek hairstyle.  Now if she would only attempt some Mycenaean or Minoan hairstyles.

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Being in a stitchery/handicraft sort of mood this time of year, I ordered another 1 inch scale doll.  When she arrives in January, she will be dressed in the height of Mycenaean fashion, and will take her place as the Mykenaia, the Lady of Mycenae:

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Athena and Hera from Peter Connolly's amazing younger reader's book, The Legend of Odysseus.  Athena's breasts aren't visible because she's wearing Homer's "tasseled aegis."  Hera is wearing a polos headdress.


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Halloween is coming.  Some of you out there may yearn to try something different in historical costume, but aren't daring enough to attempt the bare-breasted Minoan Snake Goddess look.  That's okay.  It isn't what Minoan or Mycenaean women wore everyday, anyway.

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Minoan inspiration sometimes creeps into the fashion world in unusual ways, as seen in this image below. I have no idea where a woman would wear this outfit, though.

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Funds permitting, I would like to do another Minoan doll, this time one of the three Blue Ladies from Knossos. They’re not actually dressed in blue, just posed against a blue background. Here, you can see my faithful watercolor rendering of the ladies, with their pearl-bound tresses and patterned orange jackets.

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I realize I have been neglecting my journal lately. But I have been working diligently on finishing Orestes: The Outcast, and on crafting this 1-inch scale doll: The Minoan Snake Priestess.
Each of those fringes was hand-applied; each row took about 2-3 hours to complete. Yes, she is holding a coiled snake around her left hand, and the background is ( Read more... )

One of the scenes on one side of the Agia Triadha sarcophagus.  A priest and priestesses make offerings.  Yes, a priest.  Like the Egyptians, the Minoans color-coded their genders.  So that woman with the dark skin playing the lyre is actually a man.  From this and other evidence, we know that Minoan priests wore women’s vestments during some ( Read more... )