Who sells these togas?

[Anabasis]

On wikipedia they show this very splendid looking toga. Is this accurate and who sells them? I am tired of all the fake togas the stores sell. We need new gear AGH!

Best Regards

[M. Demetrius]

I'm sure there are many sources, but La Wren's Nest sells them in wool, with or without stripe.

[url:3tcwu7a8]http://www.lawrensnest.com/togas.html[/url]

It's not that the particular toga in your illustration is special, it's just wrapped correctly, that's all. Takes MUCH cloth to do it right...a bedsheet won't make it.

[Caius Fabius]

La Wren's Nest has a CD-ROM copy of the copy of Dr. Lillian Wilson's excellent study on 'the Toga". They can use the patterns therein to make you a period toga from several different periods of Roman history, but they will need your measurements to make one exactly right. The measure of a toga is against the measure of the wearers body, and a Republican Toga or Early Imperial Toga will be made of wool, and have much more material than any bedsheet! They also take practice in getting they draped properly.
(A well-trained slave is helpful.)

[Neuraleanus]

I had La Wrens Nest make me a late Republican toga:

[url:23g80wla]http://69.245.185.34/roman/NeuraleanusDraped.jpg[/url]

The fabric is a light weight wool flannel that I obtained from:

[url:23g80wla]http://www.wovenfabrics.com/WoolFabrics.htm[/url]

The color shown in the photo is not correctly reproduced. It's more of an off-white color than pure white. Including the cost of material this toga cost about $300USD.

With the exception of the large Imperial toga, I've scanned the toga patterns from Lillian Wilson's book and put them here:

[url:23g80wla]http://www.geocities.com/legio_tricesima_cohors_tres/vestitus/VestitusRomani.html[/url]

You'll find the large Imperial toga here:

[url:23g80wla]http://www.novaroma.org/wiki/Toga[/url]

[caiusbeerquitius]

Just to let you know: a toga was not a garement often worn during the principate, and more or less ceases at all to be used (besides in visual arts) around the middle of the first centur AD. This is not very congruent with what we actually think about the toga usually, however a proven fact.

Read:

Matthias Pausch; Die römische Tunika. Ein Beitrag zur Peregrinisierung der antiken Kleidung. Wißner, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-89639-370-7.

Apparently the toga was not so much worn during the republic either, and apparently also by women. It was implemented as THE "Roman Citizen" garment by Augustus, but was not worn very much either. Just another sort of cloak, actually.

[Neuraleanus]

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It was implemented as THE "Roman Citizen" garment by Augustus, but was not worn very much either.

Was the law that August had passed that male citizens had to wear the toga when doing business in the forum simply ignored after his death? On various social occasions such as campaigning for public office and religious events, wouldn't the toga have been worn? The toga was likely not every day wear, but I think that it would be brought out for those occasions when roman males wanted to look their best.

[john m roberts]

Apparently, the toga was still requisite in the 2nd century for attending the munera. Commodus, noticing that some citizens were not wearing their togas, declared that the munera could not start until they had gone home and put their togas on.

[bisdent]

I'm sure there are many sources, but La Wren's Nest sells them in wool, with or without stripe.

[url:37azkde2]http://www.lawrensnest.com/togas.html[/url]

It's not that the particular toga in your illustration is special, it's just wrapped correctly, that's all. Takes MUCH cloth to do it right...a bedsheet won't make it.

I find many sites that sell tunics, but almost none who sells togae. Do you have any other addresses?

[jvrjenivs]

why not ask a local dressmaker? Tunics and Toga's aren't that hard to do.