While we're here, I'd like to discuss Hera's cloak thing.
This item has appeared in several different colors and on a number of klickies - on playmodb they're listed under the term Sari:
https://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/textsearch.pl?sortby=description&page=1&text=sari&lang=en&pics=onwhich is appropriate because I think its first appearance was with the Hindu princess in Fi?ures Series 3 -
k5244e - Indian WomanThis item can be worn in either direction, over the left or the right shoulder, but note that there is a difference between the two sides:
You can see that when worn over the right shoulder, the vertical part goes OVER the sash part, while when worn over the left shoulder the vertical part goes UNDER the sash. To me it makes more sense to have the sash going OVER the vertical over the front of the body. Also, the vertical part that goes over is LONGER than the vertical part that goes under.
It makes more sense to me that the long vertical part would be worn at the BACK. Taking these observations together with the fact that such sashes, togas, saris etc. are usually worn so that the right arm has greater freedom (people being mostly right-handed), it seems to me certain that the proper way to wear this sari is over the LEFT shoulder.
However two points militate against my understanding. One is that the "correct" front often has mold marks visible from the manufacturing process, which are something you want to hide away, not put at the front:
The second point is that, although the first two klickies to wear this sari - the Hindu princess and the second Roman family woman (
6493 - Roman Family) - wore it over the left shoulder, several klickies since then have worn it over their right shoulder! Namely
k5461c - South American Woman, one of the
9497 - Three Wise Kings, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. Whereas Athena and the Joseph in
5588 - Nativity Stable with Manger wear it over their left shoulder.
Anyway all that is to say that I, personally, have decided I like it over the left shoulder only, so with Hera here, and going forward with the rest of the goddesses, I will be dressing them that way and NOT the way depicted on the box art! This is my bold choice.
