What did ancient roman soilders wear?

Answer 1

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