Ancient Roman Fashion:
By: Tatiana Hubbard
They had many different styles of clothing in ancient rome which included:
The Toga a single piece of clothing worn by the ancient roman's that moved very easily and very swiftly when they would move around.
Women wore sandles and boots that were made out of leather during the cold months they would wear the boots and the men also would wear boots during the colder months and they would wear the sandles during the warmer months.
Their were many different types of Togas and here are some examples of the togas.
Toga virilis was considered to be very plain and the color that was a " Off white color."
Toga Praetexta another "Off white color." that had a purple border and was only worn by Sentors and consuls also and the different strips was an indicator for the different magistrates and their positions.
A Toga pulla was a very dark toga that was worn very strictly and only in the times of mourning.
The Toga picta was a all purple toga that was embroderd with a gold thread worn only by a Roman general only worn during a special truimphal parade and Julius Caesar which was later on adopted it as a small part of his regular dress and soon the emperors followed him and used it many times during many of the state occasions and it's name might have even come from the toga purpura which was an mulitpul all purple toga which most likely would have been worn by the early kings of those times.
The Roman women even wore a tunic which was considered to be worn like how the men wore the clothing and their were two different types which was adopted from Greek fashion the first one was the peplos which was made from teo rectangular pieces of cloth which was partially swen together on both of the sides with very open sections at the very top which was folded down the shape of the front and the back and it was also pulled over head and was fastened with two very large pins which formed a sleeve-less dress.
Sometimes a belt would be worn under the breast or at the waist or even at the hips.
Rich men also found topezas and other stones which the used in their rings to make them more fancy.
Here is a list of the different fabrics and dyes that they used:
Wool was the most common fabric used and the sheep that were breed by the Tarentatum was widley know for their sheeps wool.
Silk and cotton was importated from China and Inda Silk could only be bought by the rich and very rare for them and thats why they had to import which was due because of the expensive cost to import and Cotton had 6 impureats while silk had between 19 to 25 pecent puritys.
People tended to wear a tunic, and a tunica in Rome.
The tunic was the most simple garment that could be worn by anyone. It could also be considered a undergarment. Over it would go a small mantle of some sort of fabric. This was considered the rectangular wrap (cloak) for the Greek men or women, and pallium or palla, for the Romans,which was draped over the left arm. Roman male citizens also wore a toga instead of the Greek wrap or cloak. It was a very large semicircle of cloth fabric or a rectangular or even a semicircular cloak could also be worn pinned over the right shoulder or joined at the very front of the body.
In inclement weather or the for reason of fashions, the Romans would wear specific outer clothing,specifical a cloak or a cape.
Roman women wore ankle-length, a pleated dress known as a stola.
The Toga a single piece of clothing worn by the ancient roman's that moved very easily and very swiftly when they would move around.
Women wore sandles and boots that were made out of leather during the cold months they would wear the boots and the men also would wear boots during the colder months and they would wear the sandles during the warmer months.
Their were many different types of Togas and here are some examples of the togas.
Toga virilis was considered to be very plain and the color that was a " Off white color."
Toga Praetexta another "Off white color." that had a purple border and was only worn by Sentors and consuls also and the different strips was an indicator for the different magistrates and their positions.
A Toga pulla was a very dark toga that was worn very strictly and only in the times of mourning.
The Toga picta was a all purple toga that was embroderd with a gold thread worn only by a Roman general only worn during a special truimphal parade and Julius Caesar which was later on adopted it as a small part of his regular dress and soon the emperors followed him and used it many times during many of the state occasions and it's name might have even come from the toga purpura which was an mulitpul all purple toga which most likely would have been worn by the early kings of those times.
The Roman women even wore a tunic which was considered to be worn like how the men wore the clothing and their were two different types which was adopted from Greek fashion the first one was the peplos which was made from teo rectangular pieces of cloth which was partially swen together on both of the sides with very open sections at the very top which was folded down the shape of the front and the back and it was also pulled over head and was fastened with two very large pins which formed a sleeve-less dress.
Sometimes a belt would be worn under the breast or at the waist or even at the hips.
Rich men also found topezas and other stones which the used in their rings to make them more fancy.
Here is a list of the different fabrics and dyes that they used:
Wool was the most common fabric used and the sheep that were breed by the Tarentatum was widley know for their sheeps wool.
Silk and cotton was importated from China and Inda Silk could only be bought by the rich and very rare for them and thats why they had to import which was due because of the expensive cost to import and Cotton had 6 impureats while silk had between 19 to 25 pecent puritys.
People tended to wear a tunic, and a tunica in Rome.
The tunic was the most simple garment that could be worn by anyone. It could also be considered a undergarment. Over it would go a small mantle of some sort of fabric. This was considered the rectangular wrap (cloak) for the Greek men or women, and pallium or palla, for the Romans,which was draped over the left arm. Roman male citizens also wore a toga instead of the Greek wrap or cloak. It was a very large semicircle of cloth fabric or a rectangular or even a semicircular cloak could also be worn pinned over the right shoulder or joined at the very front of the body.
In inclement weather or the for reason of fashions, the Romans would wear specific outer clothing,specifical a cloak or a cape.
Roman women wore ankle-length, a pleated dress known as a stola.