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Sally Pointer wearing a reconstruction made with accurate materials. The red is a bit more orange and the blue leans teal, making a beautiful contrast. The inner linen is in a tan white, the natural colour of the fibre if you don't dye it, and probably one of the most common colours of skin-touching garments through history. The outfit is generally much more well-finished and comfortable than most representations of prehistoric people.

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Sally Pointer wearing a reconstruction made with accurate materials. The red is a bit more orange and the blue leans teal, making a beautiful contrast. The inner linen is in a tan white, the natural colour of the fibre if you don't dye it, and probably one of the most common colours of skin-touching garments through history. The outfit is generally much more well-finished and comfortable than most representations of prehistoric people.
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elilla&, rōnin schlampe (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 18:05:51 JST elilla&, rōnin schlampe

I guess part of the stereotype that ancient peoples had brown clothes must be from the fact that even when the clothes get preserved, which is very rare and biased towards certain materials more than others, the dyes of course won't. here's a 2000-year-old outfit found in the peat in Huldremose, in today's Denmark; a reconstruction from the Nationalmuseet of what it would have looked like when the woman wore it (https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-early-iron-age/the-woman-from-huldremose/the-huldremose-womans-clothes/); and a recreation with period materials by youtuber Sally Pointer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnAXYrcKVEE )

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