Roman Military Clothing Vol 2

[derek forrest]

Here is another posting from Graham. I dread to think what a furore will be raised when its actually published!<br>
The inclusion of a variety of shoe styles in volume 1 of Roman Military Clothing proved to be extremly popular. The same approach was therefore applied to volume 2 and when the book is published readers will see reconstructions based on actual shoes, ancient paintings and mosaics from a number of sources including Deurne, Luxor, Dura Europos and Vindolanda.<br>
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Wherever possible I prefer to base costume details in my illustrations on archaeological finds as opposed to ancient pictorial sources which will always be open to interpretation. In the latter case I can clearly be as wrong or as right as anyone else. Undoubtedly some illustrations in the second volume will raise some eyebrows but hopefully might encourage further research.<br>
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The overall aim of the series of books was to illustrate that the corpus of material which was available on clothing was much greater than is generally believed. I hope this has been achieved and that readers will be encouraged to make their own discoveries.<br>
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Graham Sumner.<br>
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