Clothing in ancient Rome

thumb|Statue of the Emperor Tiberius showing a draped toga of the 1st century AD

ancient pin or brooch for securing clothing

wreath made of branches and leaves of the bay laurel

sewn garment worn by men and women in Ancient Greece

upright|thumb|Statue of Livia Drusilla wearing a stola and palla

conical or half-egg-shaped cap, often of felt, worn in Ancient Greece and Rome and by ecclesiastics

clothing style in ancient Rome

thumb|Portrait bust|Bust of [[Septimius Severus wearing a paludamentum. Glyptothek, Munich]] In Republican and Imperial Rome, the paludamentum () was a cloak or cape fastened at one shoulder, worn by military commanders (e.g., the legatus) and rather less often by their troops. As supreme commander of the whole Roman army, Roman emperors were often portrayed wearing it in their statues and on their coinage. After the reign of Augustus, the paludamentum was restricted to the Emperor. Children would also wear it sometimes, when there was bad weather and they needed protection.

right|thumb|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. Roman women also wore a version of the abolla by at least the imperial period.

thumb|150px The paenula or casula was a cloak worn by the Romans, akin to the poncho (i.e., a large piece of material with a hole for the head to go through, hanging in ample folds round the body). The paenula was usually closed in the front but, occasionally, could be left with an open front; it could be also made with shorter sides to increase mobility for the arms. This was originally worn only by slaves, soldiers and people of low degree; in the 3rd century, however, it was adopted by fashionable people as a convenient riding or travelling cloak, and finally, by the sumptuary law of 382 (C

draped, rectangular mantle worn by women of Ancient Rome, fastened with fibulae or brooches

thumb|right|200px|Ernest Hébert's 1855 The Girls of Alvito in the [[Papal States, wearing carbatinae with footwraps]] thumb|A Casertan woman circa 1860 wearing carbatina and traditional Campanian clothing The carbatina (pl. carbatinae) was a kind of shoe common among the rural poor of ancient Greece and Rome from remote antiquity to around the 3rd century, consisting of a piece of rawhide pulled around the foot and then tied down to hold it in place. Having no upper or separate sole, the carbatina is among the simplest forms of footwear in the world and is sometimes used as a general name for

thumb|right|250px|A AD statue of the list of Roman emperors|emperor [[Tiberius recovered from a theater at Herculaneum. Depicted performing a religious ritual with his toga pulled over his head, the emperor is shown wearing the of the patrician class.]] thumb|right|250px|Calcei in a Ancient Roman painting|Roman fresco from [[Paestum, in southern Italy]] The calceus (: calcei) was the common upper-class male footwear of the Roman Republic and Empire. Normally made of leather and hobnailed, it was flat soled and typically reached the lower shin, entirely covering the foot and ankle. It was secur

A subligaculum was a kind of underwear worn by ancient Romans. It could come either in the form of a pair of shorts, or in the form of a simple loincloth wrapped around the lower body. It could be worn both by men and women. In particular, it was part of the dress of gladiators, athletes, and actors on the stage. Leather subligacula have been found in excavations of 1st century Roman London.

frame|Roman soldier wearing a sagum.

thumb|right|200px|Alexander the Great in battle. Pteruges of leather or stiffened linen are depicted at the shoulders and hips, emerging from beneath his [[cuirass. Detail of the Alexander Mosaic, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic painting.]]

Trabea (: trabeae) is the name of various pieces of Roman clothing. A distinct feature of all trabeae was their color – usually red or purple. They were formed like a toga and possibly in some cases like a mantle and worn by more distinguished members of Roman society.

draped outer garment worn by men in Ancient Rome

type of loincloth

Crepida (crepis or krepis; ), also known as Crepidula, was a type of footwear similar to a sandal, but distinct from a basic sandal. It served as a middle form between a fully enclosed boot and a simple sandal. Originally, it was worn by peasants and featured a thick, sturdy sole, often reinforced with nails. Some versions had metal plates made of lead or bronze, these were called Chian crepides (Χῖαι κρηπῖδες). A follower of Alexander the Great, Hagnon, is even said to have worn crepidae that had gold or silver nails.

thumb|Artist's representation of the assassination of Caesar; various of the assassins are wearing laticlavia or angusticlavia according to their respective ranks. In ancient Roman regalia, a laticlave or clavus was a broad stripe or band of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators as an emblem of office. The name laticlavia translates to 'broad nail' and figuratively 'broad stripe', in contrast to the 'narrow stripe' (angusticlavia) which appeared on the tunics of lower social ranks.

thumb|Picture of an Equites|equestrian dressed in his rank toga and tunic, the angusticlavia In ancient Rome, an angusticlavia, angusticlavus or angustus clavus was a narrow-strip tunic (tunica) with two narrow vertical Tyrian purple stripes (clavi, singular clavus). The tunic was typically worn under the toga with the right side stripe visible.

wild silk textile from the island of Kos, used for clothing in Ancient Greece and Rome