Merovingians in the 5th/6th century

[AlexV]

maybe roman-general fibulas, but there is no brooches found in mal graves, just feminine ones. That's why some specialists in archeology are kidding about the reenactors who wear it: it's like to be an travestite before the day :p

If you want to wear one, you must wait to the 7th, in merovgian aera of installation (Now Belgium and N-France), there is few "butterfly" ones in male graves (basically the one on the Osprey i shared), or to reenact a very hight placed officer in the late roman army..


edit:
- concerning the way to wear the cloaths: i havent any brooch, the most confortable way stays to have laces on one corner and on the middle of the top.
- for salians and ripuarians: i make the distinction because one groupe of kings/regulii seems to be placed by Julian in Toxandria, and then are quite faithfull to the romans (exept Chlogio and then CHilderic wich is banned of his "legacy" and remplaced by Aetius), and the "orthes", the ones who are attaking Treverorum several times, and who claim for Clovis's aids against the Alemanni. I don't think they are like the liminatei, some authors presents them as looters of the region during the most part of the Vth, but this is not the question there, i just linked to them for the clothes, their armament and waytofight could be different of the Salians, more romanised and including local peoples.