How to Not Look Like a Cutout Milite

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Tyler,

The belt in your photo would be a mid-first century AD belt with plates like those. I am afraid I have no idea what the apron studs are based on.
Unfortunately some of the types of belt plates in use during your chosen period may be harder to lay your hands on, depending on what yu went for, although you could always go down the custom route. You may not need that many plates though. It is highly likely that many first century AD belts had far fewer plates than most re-enactors put on theirs and later belt sets strongly suggest in being common for a belt to feature only a handful of plates. You could probably get away with a buckle plate and a couple of further non-hinged plates.

Incidentally, an apron may be less important for you. These appear to have reached their zenith (according to the sculptural evidence) in the mid first century AD and are nowhere shown on the Adamklissi metopes. On Trajan's Column they are shown as being quite short. By the late second century AD it seems to have been common for the tongue of the belt to be formed into long decorated pendant ends. When this started we do not know but it certainly seems probable that the earlier apron was already disappearing by the beginning of the second century AD.

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