1stcentury off-duty clothing

[Matthew Amt]

Underage boys frequently wore a hem stripe of red, I read. But when they came of age, and wore the toga publicly for the first time, they thereafter wore plain white tunicae.

As I understand it, underage boys *and girls* wore a TOGA with a purple/purplish border--essentially the same toga praetexta worn by praetors, consuls, and censors. At the age of adulthood, girls changed to women's clothing, while boys got the plain white toga virilis. A boy's tunic would have been the same as any man's.

I'd still like to see any solid evidence for stripes on the hems or sleeves of Roman tunics. Anyone?

Valete,

Matthew