08-28-2006, 01:31 PM
Hello Martin
You are quite safe wearing such things and in good company. Augustus wore a number of tunics according to Suetonius. The Vindolanda tablets mention a range of clothing many of which are unknown to us otherwise. Sometimes it is a game modern scholars play trying to match up names with the garments they either find in the ground or see in sculptures. The Vindolanda tablets ( some of which can be viewed on-line) as well as mentioning socks and underpants even mention sub paenula!
Graham.
You are quite safe wearing such things and in good company. Augustus wore a number of tunics according to Suetonius. The Vindolanda tablets mention a range of clothing many of which are unknown to us otherwise. Sometimes it is a game modern scholars play trying to match up names with the garments they either find in the ground or see in sculptures. The Vindolanda tablets ( some of which can be viewed on-line) as well as mentioning socks and underpants even mention sub paenula!
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"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.
"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.
