Lorica Squamata closing method

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Being too lazy to get up and walk over to my book shelf and try to find a real answer, I was going to flippantly answer "duct tape". And then recalled all those statues with belts tied around their musculata, and pondered whether those were actually functioning as the same thing. Consider that over time in real usage, the actual fasterners keeps breaking. What does the wearer do? Or rather the wearer's slave do? Run back and find an appropriately colored cloth to tie the damn thing together with. Voila, a military fashion is born, and now everyone has to have a colored sash. "By the gods, if Pompey can have one, I need one too. And a murex dyed belt is a lot cheaper than an entire cloak".