SNAPPY SOLDIER TUNIC PLEAT

[Tarbicus]

One thing is for sure; the figures in the first fresco are definitely wearing very baggy tunics.

John, funnily enough, if you look at the guy on the right wearing red, his tunic flaps over his hips at the sides just like the one I'm working on, but maybe less so.

Question for Tarbicus: Your tunic shows some sleeve clavii. What method of attachment did you use?

It's actually part of the weave of the fabric, I think just as some kind of 'edging' to the roll maybe. I haven't finished the tunic yet, and am seriously considering keeping them there, in which case I may use the tunic as an example of what a soldier might have worn for a night on the town to impress the local ladies, like most modern squaddies would do the equivalent of 8)

One thing I must say, though, is that your method of using fibulae for creating the pleats does create far more regular ones as seen as on many grave stele. I tried with my tent-like tunic and it's actually very difficult to recreate, whereas it works with a thinner tunic. I'm wondering if regional variations in the width of tunic had anything to do with it?