Winter clothing.

[stevesarak]

It seems so logical that a society that can make clothing would make socks for when the weather was cold, but for some reason I, and I'm sure there are others, just didn't think that Rome's mighty armies were sometimes marching along in their socks and sandals.

Socks have been found in Britain and Egypt, and the Cancelleria relief shows a *Praetorian* wearing socks under his caligae. Another statue foot with a sock inside a sandal was dug up last year or so. An alternative to actual socks is to make foot wraps either from a folded square of wool (place your foot on it diagonally and fold in the corners) or from a wrapped band of wool.

But in any case, this all gets much easier if you forget about modern tastes and fashions! Learn to love whatever the Romans did, and you'll be happy. In this case, yes, the Romans certainly did wear socks with their caligae.

Vale,

Matthew

I think I’ve seen images of soldiers with wrapped feet before. That seem more in line with my preconceived ideas of a culture from 2000 years ago. I have to remember that Rome was innovative, she crated the aqueduct, coliseum, the wheel for extracting water out of mines etc. So why not socks.

Rome didn’t have elastic, so I assume that their socks were basically a tube that they slipped over their feet then they wrapped a piece of material around their leg to tie it off.

And your right, if you have an interest in Rome, then you have to love what Rome did, because it was Rome.