Roman Attire

Question 1

What was the term for clothes that are put on?

Answer 1

Indutus

Question 2

What was the brides tunic?

Answer 2

Tunica recta

Question 3

What was the knights tunic, “tunic with a narrow border”?

Answer 3

Tunica angusti clavi

Question 4

What was a senatorial tunic, “tunic with a wide border”?

Answer 4

Tunica lati clavi

Question 5

What was the short-sleeved or sleeveless tunic?

Answer 5

Tunica dalmatica

Question 6

What was the long-sleeved tunic?

Answer 6

Tunica manicata

Question 7

What tunic reached the ankles?

Answer 7

Tunica talaris

Question 8

What was the under-tunic or underwear?

Answer 8

Subucula or tunica interior

Question 9

What was a womens full dress?

Answer 9

Stola

Question 10

What was a womans shawl?

Answer 10

Palla

Question 11

What is the word for clothing that is wrapped?

Answer 11

Amictus

Question 12

What toga was worn by children and magistrates?

Answer 12

Toga praetexta

Question 13

What was the regular toga worn by all men?

Answer 13

Toga virilis / pura / libera

Question 14

What toga was chalked-white and worn by candidates running for political office?

Answer 14

Toga candida

Question 15

What dark and dirtied toga was worn by men in mourning?

Answer 15

Toga pulla

Question 16

What collored or painted toga was worn by victorious generals?

Answer 16

Toga picta

Question 17

What was a short and simple toga?

Answer 17

toga exigua

Question 18

What were the bright dinner garments worn to a banquets?

Answer 18

Synthesis or Vestis cenatoria

Question 19

What was the bathrobe or robe used to exercise?

Answer 19

Endromis

Question 20

What regular tied shoe was made of leather and was always worn with a toga?

Answer 20

Calceus

Question 21

What was a sandal or slipper?

Answer 21

Sandalium

Question 22

What was the sandal or slipper that was only worn in the house?

Answer 22

Solea

Question 23

What sandals were only made of one piece of leather?

Answer 23

Carbatina

Question 24

What were the boot worn by soldiers?

Answer 24

Caliga

Question 25

What were the thick-soled shoes with an open ankle and wide straps worn by senators?

Answer 25

Calceus senatorius

Question 26

What were the red shoes with an ivory if silver crescent moon worn by magistrates?

Answer 26

Mulleus or Calceus patricius

Question 27

What shoes had untanned black leather worn by poor people and equites?

Answer 27

Perones

Question 28

What were the wooden shoes worn by peasants?

Answer 28

Sculponeae

Question 29

What shoes had a sole that was not hobnailed: the upper part was separate and made of leather?

Answer 29

Soccus

Question 30

What was the fine leather used to make shoes?

Answer 30

Aluta

Question 31

What was a ring?

Answer 31

Anulud

Question 32

What was a necklace?

Answer 32

Monile or Torquis

Question 33

What was a bracelet?

Answer 33

Armilla

Question 34

What were pearls?

Answer 34

Margarita

Question 35

What was the crown worn by men at a drinking party put on right before the throwing of the dice?

Answer 35

Corona convivalis

Question 36

What was the cap of a freedman?

Answer 36

Pilleus

Question 37

What was the broadrimmed hat?

Answer 37

petasus

Question 38

What was the pointy hat worn by the flamines?

Answer 38

Apex

Question 39

What was a wig?

Answer 39

Capillamentum

Question 40

What was underwear?

Answer 40

Subligaculum

Question 41

What was the soft leather worn under the breast by women, a bra?

Answer 41

Mamillare

Question 42

What was another type of bra?

Answer 42

Strophium

Question 43

What was the girdle worn around the waist?

Answer 43

Zona or Cingulum

Question 44

what was a brooch or pin used by women to keep their tunic in place?

Answer 44

Fibula

Question 45

What was a wide border sewn to lower the hem of a stola?

Answer 45

Instita

Question 46

What were strips of woolen cloth?

Answer 46

Fasciae

Question 47

What were the strips worn around the upper leg?

Answer 47

Feminalia

Question 48

What were the strips worn around the lower leg?

Answer 48

Tibialia

Question 49

What were the strips worn around the body?

Answer 49

Ventalia

Question 50

What were the strips worn around the neck?

Answer 50

Focalia

Question 51

What were ribbons?

Answer 51

Vittae / Taeniae / Fasciolae

Question 52

What were nets?

Answer 52

Reticula

Question 53

What was linen or cotten?

Answer 53

Carbasus

Question 54

What were clothes made of a mixture of linen and silk?

Answer 54

Vestes sericae?

Question 55

Under what Emperor was silk first used?

Answer 55

Tiberius

Question 56

What was a common cloak made of wool?

Answer 56

Lacerna

Question 56

What was the term for hood?

Answer 56

Cucullus

Question 56

Which Emporer forbade the use of the lacerna in public?

Answer 56

Augustus

Question 56

What was the military cape or cloak worn by augurs?

Answer 56

Trabea

Question 56

What was the common heavy military cloak?

Answer 56

Sagum

Question 57

What was the generals cloak?

Answer 57

Paludamentum

Question 57

What was a rain coat with a hood?

Answer 57

Paenula

Question 57

What was the heavy woolen cloak?

Answer 57

Laena

Question 57

What was the heavy woolen cloak worn by poor people to share?

Answer 57

Abolla

Question 57

What were the breeches or shorts worn by foreign and uncivilized people?

Answer 57

Bracae

Question 57

What was a way of wearing the toga over the head for religious reasons?

Answer 57

Cinctus Gabinus