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Crimson tunic and cloak, long hair, helmet, muscular cuirass with leather pteruges, leg greaves and a spear, the xiphos and the hoplite shield. Normal people wore plain or coloured tunics/chitons. The footwear were leather sandals or boots. Women's tunics were short in Sparta, because they exercised a lot.

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Crimson tunic and cloak, long hair, helmet, muscular cuirass with leather pteruges, leg greaves and a spear, the xiphos and the hoplite shield. Normal people wore plain or coloured tunics/chitons. The footwear were leather sandals or boots. Women's tunics were short in Sparta, because they exercised a lot.

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Their armour was made up of:

  • A helmet (galea or cassis)
  • Greaves to guard the legs
  • One of three types of armour: the lorica hamata (mail armour), the lorica squamata (scale armour) or the lorica segmentata (an armour with overlapping iron plates)
  • Arm protectors (manica)
  • Heavily soled shoes/sandals (caliga).

Their other clothes were:

  • A tunic
  • A sword belt (balteus )
  • Trousers in colder regions (bracchae)
  • Underpants (subligaria)
  • A skirt of leather or fabric strips to protect the upper legs (pteruges)
  • An apron: decorated metal plates in front of the groin which protected against blows which might cut the belt.
  • A scarf to protect neck from helmet (focale)
  • One of two types of cloak, the sagum or the paenula
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Uniforms did not exist back then because soldiers wore armour. The equipment of Romans soldiers was:

A helmet (galea or cassis)

One of three types of armour: the lorica hamata (mail armour), the lorica squamata (scale armour) or the lorica segmentata (armour with overlapping iron plates)

Arm protectors (manica) made of segmented armour.

Greaves to guard the legs made of metal sheets

A shield (the scutum)

Heavily soled shoes/sandals (caliga).

Their other clothes were:

A tunic

A sword belt (balteus )

Trousers in colder regions (bracchae)

Underpants (subligaria)

A skirt of leather or fabric strips to protect the upper legs (pteruges)

An apron: decorated metal plates in front of the groin which protected against blows which might cut the belt.

A scarf to protect neck from helmet (focale)

One of two types of cloak, the sagum or the paenula

Their wepaons were a short sword (the gladius), two javelins (pila) 6 darts (pumbata) and a dagger (pugio). later, a log sword (spatha) was also introduced.

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Roman soldiers wore:

A helmet (galea or cassis)

Greaves to guard the legs

One of three types of torsa armour: the lorica hamata (mail armour), the lorica squamata (scale armour) or the lorica segmentata (an armour with overlapping iron plates)

Arm protectors (manicae)

Heavily soled shoes/sandals (caliga).

A tunic

A sword belt (balteus)

Trousers in colder regions (bracchae)

Underpants (subligaria)

Groin straps overlapping strips of linen or leather that protect the lower part of the body, sometimes a far down as the knees (pteruges)

An apron: decorated metal plates in front of the groin which protected against blows which might cut the belt.

A scarf to protect neck from helmet (focale)

One of two types of cloak, the sagum or the paenula

In cold climates Roman soldiers wore a hooded paenula. This was a cloak which was like a poncho and normally did not have a hood. It came in two parts sown at the front, so that it could be thrown back to leave the arms relatively free. It was made of Gausapa wool imbued with lanolin, an oil which made it water-resistant (paenula gausapina). It could also be made of leather (paenula scortea) which was suited for colder weather. Underneath, they wore a long sleeved woollen tunic.

From the second century AD the paenula was also used by travelling civilians for protection against cold and rain and could come with or without a hood. It came to be used in the city of Rome for the same purpose. The sumptuary law of 382 made it proper everyday dress of senators, instead of the sagum.

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Their armour of Roman soldiers was made up of:

A helmet (galea or cassis)

Greaves to guard the legs made of metal sheets

One of three types of armour: the lorica hamata (mail armour), the lorica squamata (scale armour) or the lorica segmentata (armour with overlapping iron plates)

Arm protectors (manica) made of segmented armour.

Heavily soled shoes/sandals (caliga).

Their other clothes were:

A tunic

A sword belt (balteus )

Trousers in colder regions (bracchae)

Underpants (subligaria)

A skirt of leather or fabric strips to protect the upper legs (pteruges)

An apron: decorated metal plates in front of the groin which protected against blows which might cut the belt.

A scarf to protect neck from helmet (focale)

One of two types of cloak, the sagum or the paenula

Boots or sandals (caliga)

The helmets had a crest holder and a crest which was made of plumes or horse hair. It seems that the crest of ordinary soldiers as placed from the head's front to the back and that of centurions was across.

The lorica hamata was an iron (sometimes bronze) mail armour. The lorica squamata was a scale armour made from small metal scales sewn to a fabric backing. The lorica segmentata which was made of broad iron strips (girth hoops) fastened to internal leather straps were arranged horizontally, overlapping downwards, and surrounding the torso in two halves. The strips were joined by leather laces and fastened at the front and back with brass hooks. The shoulders and upper body and shoulders had additional strips (shoulder guards) and breast- and back-plates. Its earliest finds date to the 9th century BC and it was common by the 2nd century AD. It gave greater protection than the Lorica hamata and its weight only half of the latter, but was also more difficult to produce and repair.

Both the lorica hamata and the lorica segmentata were mid-thigh length with shoulder doublings.

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