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History of Western Dress
Chapter 4
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Undergraduate 3
03/11/2009

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Term
birrus, burrus
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- resembling a modern, hooded pancho, cut full and with an opening through which the head was slipped.
Term
bulla
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a locket made of gold, silver, bronze, or leather that contained charms against the evil eye that was placed around an infant's neck
Term
clavus, clavi
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- purple bands that extended vertically from hem to hem across the shoulders on tunics.
Term
abolla
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- what officers wore
- a folded rectangle fastening on the right shoulder
Term
dalmetic
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a new varient of the tunic
- fuller, and had long wide sleeves
Term
lacerna
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- rectangular, with rounded corners and a hood
Term
orarium
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- slightly larger version of the sudarium (handkerchief)
- became a symbol of rank
- in the late empire it was worn by upper-class women neatly pleated across the left shoulder or forearm.
Term
paenula
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a heavy wool cloack, semicircular in shape, closed at the front, with a hood
Term
palla
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a draped shawl placed over the outer tunic -draped either similarly to the toga, or pulled over the head like a viel
Term
paludamentum
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a large white or purple cloak similiar to the Greek chlamys, worn by emporers or generals
Term
rincinum
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- widows wore this garment instead of a palla for a year of mourning.
- probably dark colored
Term
sagum
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a single layer of thick wool, generally red.
- ordinary soldiers wore it, and in time of war so did Roman citizens
Term
sandalis
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- same as solae
- sandals that men and women wore
Term
solae
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
 - sandals that men and women wore
Term
stola
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- garment reserved for free, married women.
- denoted status
Term
subligar
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- latin word for loincloth
- served as an undergarment for middle and upper class men and a working garment for slaves.
Term
sudarium
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- white linen handkerchiefs
- for wiping off perspiration, veiling the face, or holding in front of the mouth to protect against disease.
Term
tebenna
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- the most orginal of Etruscan mantles.
- a rounded mantle worn by men and women -woven with curved edges in a roughly semi-circular or elliptical form.
- Draped either like (1) a chlamys (2) worn back-to-front with a curved edge hanging down in front and the two ends thrown back over the shoulder, or (3) like an himation.
Term
toga
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a draped, elliptically shaped mantle that probably had evolved from the Etruscan tabenna. - Slaves, foreigners and chaste adult women were prohibited from wearing the costume.
- women who committed adultery were forced to wear a plain one of these
Term
toga candida
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- white togas that senators and candidates wore
Term
toga picta
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- for triumphs and, in the later period, for consuls, this toga was richly embroidered and patterned
Term
toga praetexta
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- togas with purple borders
- freeborn boy and girl children wear this
- girls wore it until puberty
- boys wore it until 14 - 16 years age
Term
toga pulla
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- dark colored togas worn by people in mourning
Term
toga pura
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- after reaching puberty, adolescents began to wear the plain man’s toga
Term
toga trabea
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- priests wore this
- had red stripes and a purple border.
Term
toga virilis
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- the toga that boys wore after age 14 and girls wore when they hit puberty
Term
toga with folded bands
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a toga with an overfold in back and forth style until a folded band was formed at the top of the semi-circle.
- folds held in place by stitchings or pinning. - created a smooth diagonal band across the breast of the shoulder.
Term
tutulus
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a hairstyle that denotes status as mater familias
- created by drawing the hair to the top of the head and wrapping it in viittae
- effect was a conical shape
Term
vitta
Definition
- Etruria and Rome
- a woolen band used to bind a woman's hair
- another element of the head veil
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