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maidenofcrows · 1 month ago

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What? A writing struggles post? Absolutely

I was trying to look up whether unmarried women in the ancient world did anything to cover their hair and the information wasn’t super conclusive?? Married women certainly did and unmarried women sometimes did depending on a number of things like social status, geography, unspecified religious practices, weather. Unmarried women in Sparta apparently left their hair uncovered, but how do we know that?? Very little is actually known about Sparta and what we have is written from other places and therefore full of bias. It also did not state whether this would have been pre- or post- militaristic Sparta.

Dangerously close to just saying yes to the head coverings because it’s still just fanfiction but I’m also trying to be respectful

#I could go on #like being unable to use jargon in most writing because it needs to be accessible and comprehensible to a larger audience gets really #annoying when im a seamstress writing characters who are into textiles like yes Penelope of Ithaca would understand the warp and the weft #the average reader? there’s no guarantee that they’d have ever picked up a needle and thread and so I can’t use sewing terms #i can sometimes get away with using the proper terminology for historical garb but technically speaking that’s also iffy #also the exomis being described as a garment for working class and light infantry and the example photo being Odysseus tickled my brain #like I get that he wouldn’t have been wearing his rich fancy people clothes while facing the cyclopes #this was a lot #oh well #crow writes #fanfiction #writing things #writers on tumblr #ao3 #historical costuming #technically #might commit the heinous sin of stealing from the Byzantine era for this one but anyway

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