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What did wives wear in ancient Rome?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Roman girls stopped wearing girl clothes and started wearing women clothes. when they married.

Roman women wore a stola, the female equivalent of the toga. Most had short sleeves, but some had long sleeves. A tunic worn under the stola could have long sleeves. It was fastened around the shoulders by clasps. Two belts were worm. One below was the below the breasts, which created peats, and the other was around the waist. The stola of richer women could be elaborate and a limbus could be added to it. This was a piece of material with many pleats sown to the hem of the stola. It looked like another gown worn beneath the stola and created the look of many layers. This was a symbol of wealth.

The stola of poor women was a piece of material with holes for the head and the arms, tightened around the waist with a belt.

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