10-22-2007, 09:22 PM
Robert, I portray a civilian character around 390 CE in Britannia who wears a wide belt along with a tunic with clavi and orbiculi. My research had indicated that the militarization of Roman society had, by that time, led to the civil types copying the military in dress. As to the wide belts, you may be right about them fading out in the early 5th Century but I suspect that the question of who started the style, the Romans or the Germanics, is rather of a "chicken or egg question" in that it would be rather difficult at this remove to say who was using them first.
