Research Paper
Fashion changes month-to-month, week-to-week, and day-to-day. Fashion is what trend of clothing and accessories is “popular” at that time. Fashion, hairstyles, and accessories play a major role in todays society. In the culture of Caesar’s Rome the women’s hairstyles and fashion, the men’s hairstyles and fashion, and the kid’s hairstyles and fashion differed from each other in multiple ways. The women in the culture of Caesar’s Rome had many different hairstyles they wore. Most of these women had longer hair. One of the easy styles they wore was letting their hair flow behind them with a band around their head. Another hairstyle was putting the hair up and clipping it with a large pin. The wealthy women had their hair curled …show more content…
Clothing for men and women were very similar. The toga was first worn by women as well as men. There are many different types of togas, some of the togas worn by women were the pulla and praetexta. The pulla was a dark toga worn strictly in times of mourning. The praetexta toga was an off white with a broad purple border. The married women wore a different robe, called a stola. The stola has a broad borer or fringe reaching the feet. Fashion of the various times also indicated how much makeup, jewelry, and perfume would be worn.
The men had interesting hairstyles in the time of Caesar’s Rome. Men tended to wear both their hair and beards long. The Caesar Cut was worn, it is a short men’s haircut with a fringe. The hair on the top of the head is styled forward and flat. The actual name of the Caesar Cut hairstyle comes from Julius Caesar himself. Julius Caesar used to style his hair forward and short, leaving the fringe that hovered over his forehead. The reason for Julius Caesar wearing his hair forward with fringe was due to prominent balding. That is how the Caesar Cut became the popular hairstyle that all the men and younger boys …show more content…
The toga virilis was a plain, unadorned toga made in an off white color, which was only worn by any adult male. Men typically did not wear hats, they could wear a ceremonial form of headwear known as a corona, or a crown. As the typical trend in Rome in this time, there were strict rules about wearing coronas. One rule was, a gold crown decorated with the towers of a castle could only be worn by the first solider to scale the walls of a city under attack. The most honored corona was made from weeds, grass, and wildflowers collected from a Roman city held siege by an enemy, and it was given to the general who broke the siege. Old men in poor health would use wound strips of woolen cloth like spiral puttees around their legs for warmth, or wore wraps or mufflers, but such things were considered marks of old age or weakness, not to be used by healthy men.
The children in the era had different hairstyles. The young girls wore their long hair in simple buns tied at the base of their neck or wore their hair in a topknot. A topknot is when the hair is arranged on the top of the head. On special occasions the girls wore their hair in pins, like the women did. The boys wore their hair short like the Caesar Cut. This style was one- two inches hair over all the head and the bangs were cut straight in front. The children in this time were not exposed to the different hairstyles we have now and they did not have much of an
Fashion changes month-to-month, week-to-week, and day-to-day. Fashion is what trend of clothing and accessories is “popular” at that time. Fashion, hairstyles, and accessories play a major role in todays society. In the culture of Caesar’s Rome the women’s hairstyles and fashion, the men’s hairstyles and fashion, and the kid’s hairstyles and fashion differed from each other in multiple ways. The women in the culture of Caesar’s Rome had many different hairstyles they wore. Most of these women had longer hair. One of the easy styles they wore was letting their hair flow behind them with a band around their head. Another hairstyle was putting the hair up and clipping it with a large pin. The wealthy women had their hair curled …show more content…
Clothing for men and women were very similar. The toga was first worn by women as well as men. There are many different types of togas, some of the togas worn by women were the pulla and praetexta. The pulla was a dark toga worn strictly in times of mourning. The praetexta toga was an off white with a broad purple border. The married women wore a different robe, called a stola. The stola has a broad borer or fringe reaching the feet. Fashion of the various times also indicated how much makeup, jewelry, and perfume would be worn.
The men had interesting hairstyles in the time of Caesar’s Rome. Men tended to wear both their hair and beards long. The Caesar Cut was worn, it is a short men’s haircut with a fringe. The hair on the top of the head is styled forward and flat. The actual name of the Caesar Cut hairstyle comes from Julius Caesar himself. Julius Caesar used to style his hair forward and short, leaving the fringe that hovered over his forehead. The reason for Julius Caesar wearing his hair forward with fringe was due to prominent balding. That is how the Caesar Cut became the popular hairstyle that all the men and younger boys …show more content…
The toga virilis was a plain, unadorned toga made in an off white color, which was only worn by any adult male. Men typically did not wear hats, they could wear a ceremonial form of headwear known as a corona, or a crown. As the typical trend in Rome in this time, there were strict rules about wearing coronas. One rule was, a gold crown decorated with the towers of a castle could only be worn by the first solider to scale the walls of a city under attack. The most honored corona was made from weeds, grass, and wildflowers collected from a Roman city held siege by an enemy, and it was given to the general who broke the siege. Old men in poor health would use wound strips of woolen cloth like spiral puttees around their legs for warmth, or wore wraps or mufflers, but such things were considered marks of old age or weakness, not to be used by healthy men.
The children in the era had different hairstyles. The young girls wore their long hair in simple buns tied at the base of their neck or wore their hair in a topknot. A topknot is when the hair is arranged on the top of the head. On special occasions the girls wore their hair in pins, like the women did. The boys wore their hair short like the Caesar Cut. This style was one- two inches hair over all the head and the bangs were cut straight in front. The children in this time were not exposed to the different hairstyles we have now and they did not have much of an