>Are you suggesting that Persephone the Bringer of Death, Goddess of Spring, and Queen of the Underworld would be wearing anything short of the finest silks?

Yes, I am. This is my telling, and how I framed it for this story. In another story she may wear silk. She may cuckold Hades with Charon, or be a skeleton animated by Hades inability to love living flesh. Perhaps she'll be a he, or not even there.

The gods, or any mythological representation, is to provide a frame. You didn't have an issue with Medea being represented with a dandelion crown, which would have a much different sociocultural meaning in Greek lore but was utilized to represent joy in spring (and would have been more fitting of Persephone). The amount of changes between the myths of the ancient Greeks and modern understanding is wide and ranging, and in some retellings the relationship is not all wine and roses.

I, as any writer not producing historical fiction, use these archetypes as needed to portray a story. It's kinda irksome when someone rushes in to correct rather than accepting that a story is a story, not a myth.