Check(er)ed clothing in the Roman army, 1st C

[Joze Noriker]

I din't say that the checkered has never exist - but it was not "the holly rule" by the textiles by the barbarians. By the visual presentations on the greek's pottery like this is we don't know, who was this barbarian man, wich tribe? We yust know that he has cheskered trousers but he could be xy tribe... and somethimes the greeks wore the throusers, too (didn't know it?) and somethimes the greek's textiles were checkered, too. And the text of the Diodorus .... is not an archaeological item; it is text of stranger who wasn't understand the barbarian's culture and we should be very careful by the interpretation of this part of this text. In german forum of living history we had diskussion exactly of this part of the text and at least: the celtic culture exist many 100 years ... we know that the textile production was changing rapidly in this longe time. If this text will be the only one evidence of the checkered clothes than will be many good Eu-celtic reenactors completelly different (i mean design of their clothes). But we knows some textile items and we know that checkered wasn't be the "holly rule" by the all of the textiles. And we know that the fashion in the iron age was changing their attributes. And we know that "checkered design" doesn't mean normal design ala tartan (not in la Tene time!) - the evidences of them look/are different in their form. By the Germans are the checkered textile evidences normally by the items of the coats. The throusers and the tunic are usually evidented monochrome in different weaving techniques and with less ornaments.

Joze