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Ill check our Roman sites I believe there is a book on female dress
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Hi
Quote: with me getting into re-enactment and participating in my first show my Mam now has an intrest and is trying to find out a bit about late Roman womens dress, however this is proving to be harder than we expected so if anyone has any infomation it would be most welcome
Try looking under Coptic rather than Roman. A slightly misleading term but it is what the Late Roman garments found in Egypt will normally be called. The most common type of garment is a tunic for both men and women called the Dalmatic of which a number of examples exist. There are also a number of accessories such as bonnets which are found,. Unfortunately these are more likely to appear in exhibition catalogues rather than on any site on the net. So I suggest you go to any exhibitions of Coptic textiles when they appear in local Museums or track down the catalogues some of which are available second hand. Oh and look for any books on Coptic textiles and late Roman art in particular the mosaics from Piazza Armerina. For an illustration of a late Roman cavalryman punished by Julian for cowardice I put him in a woman's dress based on the PA mosaic.
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How did that come about, Jeroen?
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