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Running Title: ROMAN WOMEN’S
CLOTHING
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Roman Women’s Clothing
The women of Roman Empire were known for their style and
fashion in outfits and jewelry. Their styles still serve
as a basis for modern western dresses. Roman costumes
were marked by their similarity to Greece dress.
Roman women used different colors.
Roman
women used different colors; from the most favorite white
to sea-green, saffron, amethyst, pale rose, Thracian crane,
acorn, almond, purple, dark rose, brilliant scarlet and
even the color of congealed blood.
Tunica was
mostly used as an undergarment
The tunica was the most important of
womens garments. It was 26” to 40+” wide.
It was mostly sleeveless and of full-length. The neckline
was a horizontal slit made by leaving part of the top
seam unstitched. Instead of sewing, the top was held by
brooches. The tunica was made of fine white linen when
used as an under-garment and if used otherwise, it could
be colored linen or wool. In summer, one tunic was enough
but in cold season, a number of tunics were worn on top
of each other. Women wore long tunics made of wool or
linen, with the wealthy wearing cotton or silk.
Stola was a replacement
of toga and depicted a women’s marital status.
“In the early Rome, women
at first had worn the toga, dressing in the same fashion
as the men. But very soon female clothing had begun to
differ”. (Roman Dress)
The stola resembled toga but was rectangular in shape.
The stola indicated a woman’s marital status and
not her social or economic class. The stola was a full-length,
sleeveless tunic worn by the women on their wedding day.
The stola was usually white, brown or grey, though some
were brightly colored with vegetable dyes. It was made
of undyed wool. It was a symbol of marriage and every
women married according to Roman law was allowed to wear
it. It was not a fashionable garment rather a symbol of
women’s decency and devotion to traditions. The
stola went all the way to the ground, the lowest portion
being a border called the instita, which covered the feet,
probably sewn on and a different color from the rest of
the garment, and a means of ornamentation. Under the stola
they wore a series of undergarments i.e., light, sleeveless
under-tunic, the intusium and a fascia or strophium(brassiere).
Richer women had brightly colored stolas made out of silk
or fine Indian cotton.
The chiton was common sleeved tunic.
The chiton was common sleeved
tunic. “Two wide pieces of cloth were sewn together
almost to the top, leaving just enough room for armholes.
The woman pulled this garment over her head and used several
pins or buttons to fasten it at intervals over her shoulders
and arms, forming a dress with sleeves, which could be
belted under the breasts, at the waist, or at the hips.
The length of the sleeves was determined by the width
of the cloth”. (Barbara F.Macmanus, 1999)
The chiton were brightly colored and made of lightweight
fabrics such as linen or silk.
Palla was shawl used mostly in public places
A shawl, called a palla, was worn wrapped
around the shoulders and arm, or could be draped over
the head. The palla (or pallium) was a large rectangular
wrap of at least 5’ by 9’. Decent women in
public wore it over tunic and stola. This rectangular
shape cloth was typically draped over the left shoulder,
under the right arm and back across the body, carried
by the left arm or thrown back again over the left shoulder.
The palla could also be pulled up to cover the head.”
Mature Roman women would always cover their heads with
a veil or part of the palla when out in public”.
(Legio, 1/1/01)
Peplos was a fashion garment.
The peplos was made of two rectangular
pieces (45” wide and 60” high) of cloth partially
stitched or pinned on both side. The open sections at
the top were then folded down in the front and back. If
the sides are sewn closed, no armhole is left--the arms
go through the "top" slit on either side of
the neck opening. The overhanging fabric can either end
above the waist to show the material, which is bloused
over the waist belt, or the garment can be made long enough
for the overhang to extend almost to the knees.
Social status was obvious from clothes they wore.
Social classes could be easily guessed
through the clothes they wore. Upper class women wore
lightweight fabrics like Chinese silk and Indian cotton.
Poor men and women wore garments made of linen wool, dabbed
in off-white or gray. Wool was in common use while silk
was indirectly imported all the way from China over the
famous Silk Road and was so rare as to be worth its weight
in gold.
Generally, clothing is used to protect body
from climatic intensities and surely for the reason of
modesty and somehow to display the beauty of body. For
almost the same reasons, the Romans used clothing. The
different styles used were aimed to cater for a variety,
occasions and beauty of the clothes. The material and
colors varied from season to season. The selection of
styles, color or material also depicted the social and
economic status of the women. The range of clothes differed
from minor girls to grown-up virgins and to married women,
and from poor and ordinary to high-class women.
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