Show here your Greek warrior impression

[Kineas]

My first Classical impression.

Hat is by Cacaius Rebus. Still not a perfect petasos, but very nice, and kept the sun off on a 38 degree © day. I also pushed it back on the linen chin-strap (sometimes visible in ARW) and it did bob around the back of my head, just like the ARW and ABW pictures!

Spear is by Manning Imperial (haft by me.) It is a longche, or that's what I think it's called.

The Chiton (any thanks are due to Giannis) is wool, with wool stripes sewed on by hand. They DID edge in braid or weaving, but I suspect that it would hang better if the stripes were woven in. I'm working on it...

The Chalmys is the best piece of fabric I've got--it is so much like one of the Scythian burial fabrics that I curse that there were just 4 yards left on a remnant... there's a woven pattern of 2 inch squares that is invisible in the photos...

The cloak pin is almost invisible, but it is from HR Replikat. Goodness, they do nice work. Our Aurora Simmons in Toronto is about to launch a line of stuff from the Royal Ontario Museum and other online sources in silver and bronze--pins and fibulae and such...

I'm wearing a linen rope girdle--two lengths of linen rope tied at the "front" with a Hercules knot for decoration, and laced at the back--based on some jewelry survivals and a 4th C. BC Italian vase painting at the Walters Gallery. Works, too.



That's me at the end of a lot of javelin throwing. But that's another post!