ABSTRACT
Introduction All clothing is men’s or children’s or women’s or that which may be worn by either sex or that which may be worn by slaves. Men’s clothing is provided for the benefit of the paterfamilias, such as togas, tunics, cloaks, bedspreads, coverlets and blankets and the like. Children’s garments are clothes used only for this purpose, such as togae praetextae, coats, chlamydes and cloaks which we provide for our sons. Women’s clothes are those acquired for the benefit of the materfamilias, which a man cannot easily wear without incurring censure, such as robes, wraps, undergarments, head coverings, belts, turbans, which have been acquired more with a view to covering the head rather than for decorative effect, coverlets and mantles.1
