08-26-2006, 08:44 PM
Barbara wrote:
Not always Barbara. There are tombstones which show the male adopting the Roman toga but the female retaining traditional dress. This happens in many societies and can even be seen today amongst many Arabs with the men in Western dress, suits and ties but the women wearing traditional styles.
Traditional Iron Age styles may have been retained for cultural or religious reasons but they were also far more practical for the Northern climate than the Italian fashions. Eventually it was the Northern styles which dominated and eventually Germanic dress along with Eastern influences which replaced Italian dress as the mainstream fashion of the Empire.
P.S Have you read the articles by J.P.Wild on clothing in the North West Provinces? One is published in Bonner Jarbucher.
Graham.
Quote:Is she proud of her Germanic origin and wants to show it to all the others? (Normally she would be proud to be more roman and would try to look as roman as she could!)
Not always Barbara. There are tombstones which show the male adopting the Roman toga but the female retaining traditional dress. This happens in many societies and can even be seen today amongst many Arabs with the men in Western dress, suits and ties but the women wearing traditional styles.
Traditional Iron Age styles may have been retained for cultural or religious reasons but they were also far more practical for the Northern climate than the Italian fashions. Eventually it was the Northern styles which dominated and eventually Germanic dress along with Eastern influences which replaced Italian dress as the mainstream fashion of the Empire.
P.S Have you read the articles by J.P.Wild on clothing in the North West Provinces? One is published in Bonner Jarbucher.
Graham.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
