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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.
In literature and poetry, Romans were the gens togata ("togate race"), descended from a tough, virile, intrinsically noble peasantry of hard-working, toga-wearing men and women. The toga's origins are uncertain; it may have begun as a simple, practical work-garment and blanket for peasants and herdsmen.
In Latin literature, wearing the male toga was associated with prostitution and adultery. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In Roman life, the only Roman women who wore a toga were unfree prostitutes (referred to as meretrices or ancillae ) who worked in the streets and in brothels.
In ancient Rome women athletes wore leather briefs and brassiere for maximum coverage but the ability to compete. Girls and boys under the age of puberty sometimes wore a special kind of toga with a reddish-purple band on the lower edge, called the toga praetexta. This toga also was worn by magistrates and high priests as an indication of their ...
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.
Man wearing Petasos, Coinage of Kapsa Macedon c. 400 BCE. Women and men wore different types of headgear. [2] Women could wear veils to preserve their modesty. [9] [page needed] Men would wear hats for protection against the elements. [4] [page needed] Both men and women also wore different types of headbands to pull their hair up or for ...
Statue of Livia Drusilla wearing a stola and palla. ... The palla was a traditional ancient Roman mantle worn by women, ... as with the traditional toga. [5]
During the Old, Middle and New Kingdom, ancient Egyptian women mostly wore a simple sheath dress called a kalasiris, [9] which is shown to cover the breasts in statues, but in paintings and relief the single breast depicted in profile is exposed. [10] Women's clothing in ancient Egypt was more conservative than men's clothing.