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   Erotic Mythology 🧜‍♀️ (aimeemaroux@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:38 JST Erotic Mythology 🧜‍♀️

   On #NationalUnderwearDay I want to talk about the ancestor of the bra: the strophion!

   In #GreekRomanArt the goddess #Aphrodite can sometimes be seen putting it on or taking it off but mortal women are depicted wearing it too.

   It is uncertain what the Greek strophion looked like but the Roman adaptation, the strophium, was a breast band, a strip of cloth wrapped around the upper torso.

   It was a normal but optional piece of feminine clothing.

   @antiquidons @histodons #herstory #ancientRome

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     GunChleoc (gunchleoc@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:22 JST GunChleoc

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     • Sìne
     • Cassidy Percoco
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     You could try a meta search engine like https://metager.org/which will give you different results. It also comes with the advantage of nor tracking you.

     @mimicofmodes @VVitchy @AimeeMaroux @Sine @antiquidons @histodons

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     Cassidy Percoco (mimicofmodes@historians.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:27 JST Cassidy Percoco

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     • Sìne
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     @VVitchy @AimeeMaroux @Sine @antiquidons @histodons Well, the other issue is that this information simply isn't out there - not Google's fault! A lot of nitty-gritty construction information that comes from trial and error is only produced by reenactors (because it's typically not relevant to academic practice wrt dress history) and so you are very dependent on people maintaining their blogs in order to find info like this.

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     Erotic Mythology 🧜‍♀️ (aimeemaroux@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:34 JST Erotic Mythology 🧜‍♀️

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     @VVitchy @Sine @antiquidons @histodons It would prolly be a piece of linen and linen is awesome at absorbing moisture.
     I'll see if I can maybe work it out with a scarf. The original page with instructions sadly is no more 😔

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     I am your √(-1) friend (vvitchy@pagan.plus)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:34 JST I am your √(-1) friend

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     @AimeeMaroux @Sine @antiquidons @histodons

     Danke .

     I tried to Google how-to, and just got pages of 'this was what they wore' articles.

     I swear Google is fucking useless these days

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     I am your √(-1) friend (vvitchy@pagan.plus)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:36 JST I am your √(-1) friend

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     @Sine @AimeeMaroux @antiquidons @histodons

     🤜🤛

     It looks like it'd breathe away sweat better as well

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     Erotic Mythology 🧜‍♀️ (aimeemaroux@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:37 JST Erotic Mythology 🧜‍♀️

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     Here is a photo of a woman replicating the Roman Strophium, inspired by the Greek Apodesme. It was folded from a single piece of fabric, as in the figure of Aphrodite above.

     Image via #Reddit, but no attribution was given.

     #NationalUnderwearDay #ancientRome #reenacting #experimentalArchaeology #archaeology

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     Sìne (sine@pagan.plus)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:21:37 JST Sìne

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     @AimeeMaroux @antiquidons @histodons If anyone works out how this is tied, I'd love to know! It actually looks much more comfortable and elegant than the padded thing I've got on today 😕

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     Sìne (sine@pagan.plus)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 07:22:27 JST Sìne

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     Nice one @gunchleoc 👍 I'd not heard of metager.org before

     And for the strophium conversation @mimicofmodes @VVitchy @AimeeMaroux @antiquidons @histodons I found this page which is written by a re-enactment woman and describes how she ties her strophium https://wh1350.at/en/clothing/the-strophium/

     Now I just need to find the recommended thin linen. A haberdashers maybe?