09-10-2003, 03:40 PM
Rich,<br>
I haven't had a chance to see Norma's video yet, but we had some good discussions in Buffalo last June. We did talk about weights on a toga, though. While external weights are easy to spot in Greek vase painting of himatioi, and there are verbal comments about Roman toga weights in modern scholarship, the only ones I ever been able to find are on the Augustan togas of the Ara Pacis frieze. Maybe they have broken off, but some of the photos I seen that purport to have them just look like damaged marble to me. There are very few "togati" whose folds have survived undamaged. My imperial toga, modeled on the Titus in the Vatican Museum, doesn't have any. I've found they are unnecessary; mine falls, folds, and hangs just fine without them. I do use them on my pallium, though, curtain weights sewn into the corners of my Greek key border. Both Norman and Judith really liked it too. I'm not sure they were used, or even all that necessary, as the imperial toga enlarged past the Augustan period.<br>
<br>
Wade Heaton<br>
Lucius Cornelius Libo<br>
[email protected] <br>
www.togaman.com <p></p><i></i>
I haven't had a chance to see Norma's video yet, but we had some good discussions in Buffalo last June. We did talk about weights on a toga, though. While external weights are easy to spot in Greek vase painting of himatioi, and there are verbal comments about Roman toga weights in modern scholarship, the only ones I ever been able to find are on the Augustan togas of the Ara Pacis frieze. Maybe they have broken off, but some of the photos I seen that purport to have them just look like damaged marble to me. There are very few "togati" whose folds have survived undamaged. My imperial toga, modeled on the Titus in the Vatican Museum, doesn't have any. I've found they are unnecessary; mine falls, folds, and hangs just fine without them. I do use them on my pallium, though, curtain weights sewn into the corners of my Greek key border. Both Norman and Judith really liked it too. I'm not sure they were used, or even all that necessary, as the imperial toga enlarged past the Augustan period.<br>
<br>
Wade Heaton<br>
Lucius Cornelius Libo<br>
[email protected] <br>
www.togaman.com <p></p><i></i>
