Winter Clothing in 1st century AD legionary re-enactment

[Tarbicus]

That childs sock is just thrown together, it is not made well.

It's two thousand years old. Until you make and wear a pair you have no justification for forming such a strong opinion.

Trousers, who really knows.

But we do know. There isn't a single representation of a Roman, let alone a legionary, wearing even femenalia, which still leave the lower leg exposed, until the early 2nd-C AD.

You cannot physically compare him with a hardened, beaten up, legionary who could probably eat dirt and ask for seconds.

But aren't you doing doing exactly that, and transposing most modern westerners' preference for trousers in cold weather onto "a hardened, beaten up, legionary who could probably eat dirt and ask for seconds"?

There is an excpetion - kilts. Many wearers don't even use underpants. Kilt wearers at this forum link complain mostly about cold ears and hands.

And this still doesn't get around the plain and simple fact that Crispus has done it for a week in deep snow with no issues.