Roman Tunic - Help

[Draagon]

Thanks everyone for your help! I'm very happy that you help me and I have learned a lot from your replies!

I'm very new to this topic (Roman Reenactment) and watched the big Hollywood movies + HBO Rome only. Now I have started to read about roman dress to get more information and realized that the movie dresses aren’t very accurate.

Here are the answers to your questions so I hope I can clear some things up.

The basic question to be answered first would be 'What do you wanna portray?'
This question can be further diveded into two (or three) questions:
1. Which period to portray? – 1st century (early empire)
2. What type/rank/unit? – roman senator / military commander (legate)

Firstly is your tunic for a civilian or military impression?

Both. At first I want to use the tunic under my toga (roman senator) but also under my armor (which I don’t have at the moment).

For the roman senator tunic I took this picture from my Osprey book as reference now:



The tunic has the vertical clavi you have talked about. The togas are plain white but I thought they had clavi along one edge too (???)


I have changed my tunic pattern so it has the vertical stripes now. Second: It has no longer sleeves.

[img width=400]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/Draagon86/Tunicpattern_zps354f0062.jpg[/img]


The size of the clavi for the senatorial class was 7”. Is that right?

Were the clavi woven in or sewn on the tunic?


I found two pictures where the commanders wore the same tunic under their armor but I don’t know if that’s accurate military dress. What do you think about that?





P.S: Thank you for your book recommendations! I will buy both books next month.