Am I period? Redux

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Imagebase indeed, but who will host it?<br>
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The material, as you might have guessed, is muslin cotton, perhaps not entirely "wrong" (for a wealthy lady, anyway) but not really something you'd see on the northern frontiers, where wool and linen (and hemp maybe?) would have predominated. I did "dish" the neckline a bit.<br>
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I haven't really set upon a persona, I was just going for a generic middle-class woman. Think my jewelry's fancy? Boy howdy, you haven't seen me in <span style="text-decoration:underline">all</span> my finery! <br>
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Seems from the depictions I've seen that Roman women -- at least the ones who were wealthy enough to have their images preserved in some fashion -- were absolutely bangle-crazy!<br>
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Check out all that finery (and oh, a headscarf) on this lady from Palmyra:<br>
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<img src="http://www.romanarmy.com/RATstuff/jenny-jewelry6.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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Now notice the resemblance between this Roman jewelry below and the tiger eye necklace above (OK, not the stones, not the metal, but the style, yes?)<br>
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<img src="http://www.romanarmy.com/RATstuff/jenny-jewelry5.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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This portrait from a painted mummy coffin found in Egypt says "middle class" to me, and it's kind of the look I was after. Thank god I do not have to pluck my eyebrows like she should've, However, I am going to have to sew my dresses differently, because the seam is clearly at the shoulders on her dress (you can even see the loosened stitches).<br>
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<img src="http://www.romanarmy.com/RATstuff/jenny-jewelry7.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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Cheers<br>
Jenny<br>
<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub27.ezboard.com/bromancivtalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jrscline>JRSCline</A> at: 8/11/03 1:35 pm<br></i>