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Q3.What they wore on there day to day lives
A Roman could tell how rich you were and how high you were in the social status by what kind of toga you wore.The toga was made from white wool or white egyptian linen, it was square or rectangular shaped, draped over the shoulder and held in place with a piece of string.The toga was worn mostly on state occasions.Senators wore a toga with a purple edge. Some Roman senators wore white tigas, which were 10 meters long.Some emporers togas that were fully purple or black (black and purple were the most expencive dyes), although black was usually worn in times of mourning.Most Romans stoped wearing togas, because they were hard to wear and people got cold when wearing them.

The Romans switched to the comfortable tunics. Tunics look like long t-shirts, they were far more practical. Tunics were made of cool linen, in summer, and warm wool, in winter. They also wore that with trousers.Woman wore a tunica, which was knee high length and woman usually put stollas over, which was the length from your neck to your ankle- high wasted and held at the shoulders with a clasp. The stola was usually white, brown or grey.Some were brightly coloured with vegetables dyes.

A shawl called a palla was worn, wrapped around the shoulders and arms, or could be draped over the neck. Cloacks were also worn to keep warm.

Roman boys wore a white knee high tunic that was white with a crimson border. Once a boy becam a man he put away his tunic and started wearing a full white tunic. Roman girls wore a simple tunic held up with a belt at the waist. when they went outside they wore a secound tunic that reached there feet.

People in the Army would have worn:
 * lots of chain mail(cloth made out of circular links)
 * scale armour(metal plates about 3 inches long and about an inch wide, sewn together with linen or leather)
 * leather layers
 * metal armour
 * heavy boots

Footwear showed a person's position in society. Women wore closed shoes that were either white, green or yellow. Men wore sandals. Patricians wore red sandals. Senators wore brown footwear with black straps which wound round the leg to mid-calf, where the straps were tied. Consuls wore white shoes, and soldiers wore heavy boots.

Cleaning clothes at home in ancient Rome was difficult because there wasn’t much water and cleaning equipment. Cleaning clothes was left to fullers, who are shown in wall paintings treading clothes with their feet. Clothes were also treated with Sulphur and urine, and brushed with combs. All Roman towns had at least one public bathhouse. The bathhouse was cheap to enter and free for children. Its not like normal baths today or swimming pools, baths in ancient Rome First you undressed and went into a cold room for a cold dip. From there you went to a warm room and then into a really hot steamy room and a hot dip. Sometime later, after a slave had massaged oil into your skin and scraped it off with a strigil, you went back to the cold room for another dip. You might even take some exercise outside.

How does this compare to modern day? I think that compared to ancient Rome, cleaning has changed because today we have so many different products, and cleaning equitment and water. Were as in Ancient Rome it was like they had a drought on water and cleaning equitment, so we are pretty lucky to have so many products avalible, but even though we have heaps of water, cleaning products and cleaning equitment avalible to us, I dont think that means there clothes wernt cleaned as well, it would have just taken a long time to clean clothes so that means they probbly cleaned there clothes less.Well i dont really know much about dyes today but i do think how they make dyes and they dye there clothes have changed alot.I think foot wear has changed alot. Heaps of people in ancient Rome wore tunics and togas, but in different colours. But now a days people express them selves in there clothes they are unique and some times crazy, but just like in ancient Rome, fashion still changes regularly. People still judge people on what they wear come to conclusions that if there wearing that they are a certain person.

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