11-01-2006, 07:03 PM
Here are images of the Camomile Street Soldier (both from the Romarmy.com Imagebase) who is clearly wearing a more circular cloak- given how it hangs (the sides meeting straight up the middle at the front) and a close-up shot of the closure showing two buttons and two maybe toggles(?). Certainly, as is the case with so many other things, there were likely a myriad of ways to secure cloaks- buttons, toggles, pins- and it'd seem perfectly reasonable to me to expect buttons and toggles, for example, to be made of bone, hardwood or metal depending on what an individual wanted, could get, etc.
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