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Clothing in ancient Rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for women and girls. On formal occasions, adult male citizens could wear a woolen toga , draped over their tunic, and married citizen women wore a woolen mantle, known as a palla , over a stola , a ...
Statue of the Emperor Tiberius showing a draped toga of the 1st century AD. The toga (/ ˈ t oʊ ɡ ə /, Classical Latin: [ˈt̪ɔ.ɡa]), a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between 12 and 20 feet (3.7 and 6.1 m) in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.
Two men wearing abollas, as seen on the bas-reliefs on the triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus at Rome. An abolla was a cloak-like garment worn by ancient Greeks and Romans . Nonius Marcellus quotes a passage of Varro to show that it was a garment worn by soldiers ( vestis militaris ), and thus opposed to the toga .
Vietnamese tunics are called áo dài, [11] [12] is a garment now customarily worn by both Vietnamese men and women. It is similar to the kurta of the Indian subcontinent countries, [13] and the cheongsam of China. [14] The áo dài was developed from the clothing worn in Chinese court but it could only be worn by the royalty originally. [15]
It has long been believed that Roman women originally did not wear stolae and that they instead wore togas like the men. However, this goes back to a scholarly lore invented in Late Antiquity. [9] [10] For the most part, the toga was worn exclusively by men, and Roman wives (matronae) traditionally wore the stola.
It may originally have been women's clothing, adopted by men as part of the holiday's role reversals. [11] The emperor Nero was criticized for choosing a loose-belted synthesis as everyday attire. [12] The priesthood of the Arval Brothers wore a white version of the garment at their ceremonial banquets. [13]
Woman looking in her closet for business casual attire. Although the rules of dressing aren’t nearly as strict nowadays as they were in, say, the 1950s and 60s, there are still some guidelines ...
The clothing of men and women at several social levels of Ancient Egypt are depicted in this tomb mural from the 15th century BC. The preservation of fabric fibers and leathers allows for insights into the attire of ancient societies. The clothing used in the ancient world reflects the technologies that these peoples mastered. In many cultures ...