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Originally the toga was worn by all Romans; free citizens were required to wear togas because only slaves and children wore tunics.By the 2nd century BC, however, it was worn over a tunic, and the tunic became the basic item of dress. Women wore an outer garment known as a stola, which was a long pleated dress similar to the Greek chitons.
Toga candida: "Bright toga"; a toga rubbed with chalk to a dazzling white, worn by candidates (from Latin candida, "pure white") for public office. [11] Thus Persius speaks of a cretata ambitio, "chalked ambition". Toga candida is the etymological source of the word candidate. Toga pulla: a "dark toga" was supposed to be worn by mourners at ...
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Rod Stewart is celebrating his 80th birthday with a familiar face: longtime pal and Faces bandmate Ronnie Wood!. Just over a week after marking his milestone birthday on Jan. 10, Stewart stepped ...
Man in "toga" outfit. A toga party was depicted in the 1978 film Animal House, which propelled the ritual into a widespread and enduring practice. Chris Miller, who was one of the writers of Animal House, attended Dartmouth College where the toga party was a popular costume event at major fraternity parties (such as Winter Carnival and Green Key Weekend) during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Before Barbie made pink cool again, Hillary Clinton was doing it at Bill Clinton’s second inauguration in 1997, where she wore a pleated bubblegum top coat layered over a matching turtleneck ...
In Ancient Rome, both men and women originally wore the toga, but over time matrons adopted the stola as the preferred form of dress, while prostitutes retained the toga. Later, under the Lex Julia, women convicted of prostitution were forced to wear a toga muliebris, as the prostitute's badge of shame. [14]
She wore the Napoleonic Amethyst Parure Tiara, which her mom, Queen Silvia, wore to the events last year. Pascal Le Segretain - Getty Images Princess Victoria's updo was extremely glamorous.