Fashion in Ancient Rome Veni, Vidi, Vici (not Versace)
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Fashion in Ancient Rome
Veni, Vidi, Vici(not Versace)
What was worn?
• Togas• Tunics• Stolas• Tunicas• Peplos• Sandals
Togas• Romans clothing is most
reconized with the Toga• The Toga was a long piece
of wool cloth wrapped around the body in a stylish fashion
• The colour of the toga showed who was rich (patricians) and who was poor (plebians)
Togas
• A toga in the off-white color of the undyed wool that was worn by adult male citizens.
• An off-white toga with a large purple / reddish border was only to be worn by high ranking politicians (senator, consuls, etc.).
• An artificially whitened toga would be worn by candidates for political office.
Victorious generals and later emperors wore elborate designs in white and purple on their togas (right)
• After a death, a dark toga was worn to show you were in mourning. This is much like funerals today.
Tunics
• A tunic is like a t-shirt.
• It was made from a folded piece of cloth sewn up the side with arm holes and a neck hole cut out.
• It was often held with a belt at the waist.
• Patricians wore white tunics under their togas.
• Plebians could often only afford a darker / offwhite tunic
• Depending on the season you could wear different tunics
Women’s Fashion
Peplos
• A peplos was a sleeveless dress that was put together much like a tunic.
Tunica (Chiton)
• Like the men’s tunic, the Tunica was much like a T-Shirt
• Women made themselves fashionable by using buttons ans pins to hold their tunicas together.
Stola
Married women dress is layers.After marriage, a woman would begin to wear
the stola, a long tunic held together by sigle straps at the top.
It was worn OVER another tunica.
• http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-dress.html
• http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-dress.html
• http://www.crystalinks.com/romeclothing.html