Halloween Costume Series Day 13: Greek Goddess White Chiton with Blue and Purple Patterns
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Here we have a generic Greek goddess wearing a white chiton, edged with blue and purple patterns. Since it is a costume, call her Hera or Aphrodite or Hestia or whoever, but I don’t think this one quite works as Artemis, not very good for hunting. This one broke the “no research” Halloween rule; it’s modeled after this image from Ancient Greek Female Costume. I should just do a proper costume, which seems to be a rather different beast than a regular old chiton…
Who knew the Green Princess was such a force to be reckoned with? I may have to take another look at her and her story. In the meantime, vote vote vote…
Tags: aphrodite, blue, chiton, costume, Costumes, dress, goddess, greece, greek, halloween, hera, hestia, long, purple, sleveless, white
Costumes, historical, holidays, paperdolls | Liana October 16, 2008
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By Brian, October 16, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
I thought Liana made up this word, ‘chiton’ — but it turns out she has just named the costume after some kind of giant underwater ancient roly-poly bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiton
By Liana, October 16, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
Your comment was so pathetic it got flagged as spam, dear.
I still love you <3