11-24-2008, 04:57 PM
It is only an opinion but I do not think that the Roman soldier of earlier centuries wore all of the padding that we see with re-enactors today. Indeed I think that anyone would be hard pushed to find evidence for this at all in the earlier periods. It is my personal opinion that in 1st 2nd and even 3rd centuries, the under armour garment would only have been of thin leather and even then it would only have been of short waist length.
Brian Stobbs
