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Римским гражданам макарены, озабоченным статусной одежкой — тогой. А то пустили тут некоторые слух, что у меня информация на эту тему есть. Так вот, правда, есть. Но в бумажной книжке. И на английском. Переводить непосредственно сейчас лень. Если кто сделает, отметьтесь в комментариях, пожалуйста.

The fully developed toga of Republican and Imperial Rome was in shape the segment of a circle and about eighteen and a half feet long by seven feet deep at its centre. It was decorated at times by a stripe along its straight edge. In the illustrations, the method of draping is as follows. Take a point on the straight edge АВ about one-third of its length from A. Place this point on the left shoulder. Allow point A to fall to the ground in front, then carry the remainder of the straight edge round the back of shoulders and underneath the right arm. Now grasp the garment at a point (x) about one-third or more of its depth from the straight edge and allow a flap or over-fold to hang down. Gather and twist some folds at the right side of waist-line to form a belt (baltaeus) and tuck the point x well into the girdle of the tunic underneath; this keeps it in place. Now let the over-fold already formed droop towards the knee in a curve and throw the remainder of the garment backwards over the left shoulder, letting the end В hang down towards the feet. The semi-circular over-fold now seen was called the sinus. The last stage of draping is that of forming the boss, or umbo. This is done by pulling up a portion of that part of the toga which was first allowed to fall to the ground in front. The result is to lift the end A off the ground a few inches and to give the characteristic small drapery hanging out over the left side of waist-line and ascending to the left shoulder. The model at the diagram has lifted up the sinus or over-fold to form a head-covering, as was done for certain religious ceremonies, but for general use the over-fold hung down from the shoulders at the back. This model is wearing a sleeveless tunic (tunica) reaching to the elbows and to the knees. The tunic is shown to a small scale and in correct proportion to the toga. He also wears a pair of low half-boots (crepida) which leave the toes uncovered. The material of the toga was almost invariably wool of the natural colour and was not decorated; this was the proper dress of the Roman citizen and denoted his status.

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This method of draping the toga was in vogue from about the second century B.C. till the second century A.D.

Из: Mary G. Houston, Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Costume.