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Nice fire effect. I’m curious how you made it.
Thanks! The trick is a lot of transparent layers, and a judicious use of smudge and push brushes.
What did Athenian people wear in the winter? Those women would be freezing, and the men would not exactly be warm.
Wool fabric was plentiful, and so for warmth they wore woolen robes and cloaks and such.
The climate was very mild, however, so most days they wouldn’t need to. Men generally wore very little, as a matter of fact—just a short skirt or a knee-length skirt most of the time. Women were much more modest, wearing full-length skirts that reached the ankles. (I’m picturing a woman’s exposed calf being seen as risqué, and to show her knee scandalous! But those may well be anachronistic cultural conceptions they didn’t even have). As we’ve seen, above the waist, women didn’t really cover up. Elite women might wear just a short bolero-jacket-type thing, but it didn’t cover their breasts. One thing that elite-class women sometimes wore was a small apron-looking panel around their waist, which nobody is really sure what it was for (my favorite theory is that it was like a heraldic badge showing off your family and rank). The fuller tunics and shirts I’ve depicted men wearing didn’t really appear until late in the Bronze Age, and I surmise they were more ceremonial, or maybe even just something to be worn under metal armor. Whatever they wore, Bronze Age clothing seems to have had a lot more to do with social signaling than with covering up or protection from the elements.
The really interesting thing to me, though (which the guy obscured by flames was starting to get at, and which I intend to mention when the time comes), is that Greek peoples of the Bronze Age wore highly-structured clothing sewn together from carefully-shaped pattern pieces. The loose and drapey peplos and chiton we know from classical Greece were far more rudimentary garments, made of a single large rectangle and nothing more—which were simply draped and held together with pins and belts. Furthermore, the Bronze Age towns had specialized textile “factories” that made everything from simple linens to rich luxurious fabrics. (Part of the Key Bearers’ compensation was an annual allotment of rich fabrics made by the civic textile shop!) In classical Greece, on the other hand, textiles were much more basic, and were almost entirely made in the home.
It’s almost as if Athens went from a world of sophisticated fashion designers, patternmakers, textiles, and trim, to a world that didn’t even know how to sew. I wonder what happened.
Everything changed when the sea peoples attacked XD
lol