That´s the most beautiful Viking/Rus outfit I´ve
seen so far! But when I suggested the look to an
SCA friend for court garb, she pointed out the
little string that holds the upper edge together
quite awquardly, and there would be strain on the
pearl string if you remove that little string.
However, that Valkyria figure next to the photo
with the shawl looks pretty much like that
outfit, but appears to have a small apron or so
in front. Could it be that there were decorative
aprons or bibs that went with this outfit and
were not included in the box found in Russia? What do you think?
At 22:28 12.02.2008, you wrote:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Margo Anderson wrote:
> This reconstruction isn't what I would describe as "provocative" by
> modern standards! Just goes to show what to what lengths the media
> will go to to sex things up.
True, it's not provocative by modern standards, but to be fair to the poor
reporter consider this: if Viking women normally covered their breasts with
at least two layers of clothing, having just a thin linen shift over them
might register as "sexy" (In the same way that, at the height of the
Victorian period, an unexpected amount of legshow when the woman was in day
dress registered as "sexy.")
Whether the single-layer-over-the-breasts look was unique to the kind of
costume Larsson posits would depend on how common it really was for women
other than slaves to wear only a single garment over the breasts. It might
also depend on whether Viking women bound or otherwise wore undergarments
that supported the breasts (something we really have no data on at present).
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