01-24-2013, 09:42 PM
As I am not on facebook I have not seen your pictures Mark.
However as far as I know the archaeological and iconographical evidence really only supports the use of red or un-dyed material during the first century AD. There is no evidence for troops at this period using a wide variety of colours for tunics.
So if you have 10 guys in 10 different shades of red or reddish brown tunic I personally would see no problem with that.
Equally as far as I know there is little evidence for 'local fashions' either archaeologically or from the Roman sources who tend to show 'Barbarians' wearing very little or nothing at all. The sources seem to indicate the Romans were getting there clothing made up to specific dimensions. Soldiers at Vindolanda in Britain are recorded being sent to Gaul (modern France) to get clothing, not from the local village, which in any case would more than likely be set up my merchants or others following the army not by the locals. Equally wool suppliers in Egypt were sending clothing to the armies based in modern Israel and Turkey.
However my next publication will be dealing with this very issue. So if anyone does have any evidence for 'local fashions' I will be very pleased to hear it as long as it is supported by sound sources.
Graham.
However as far as I know the archaeological and iconographical evidence really only supports the use of red or un-dyed material during the first century AD. There is no evidence for troops at this period using a wide variety of colours for tunics.
So if you have 10 guys in 10 different shades of red or reddish brown tunic I personally would see no problem with that.
Equally as far as I know there is little evidence for 'local fashions' either archaeologically or from the Roman sources who tend to show 'Barbarians' wearing very little or nothing at all. The sources seem to indicate the Romans were getting there clothing made up to specific dimensions. Soldiers at Vindolanda in Britain are recorded being sent to Gaul (modern France) to get clothing, not from the local village, which in any case would more than likely be set up my merchants or others following the army not by the locals. Equally wool suppliers in Egypt were sending clothing to the armies based in modern Israel and Turkey.
However my next publication will be dealing with this very issue. So if anyone does have any evidence for 'local fashions' I will be very pleased to hear it as long as it is supported by sound sources.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
