12-22-2005, 09:33 PM
I have been thinking about just this subject. I notice gabardine fabric drapes very nicely, whereas not every fabric does that. Holger Ratsdorf has pointed out to me that German weavers of the Roman era were of the highest order, which is why Romans adopted the Sagum. Note also that the vast majority of the steles with pleats come from the Rhineland. This changes the way I think of the quality of tunic fabric.
"In war as in loving, you must always keep shoving." George S. Patton, Jr.