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Where’s the info on that battle skirt??
Groin guard wasn’t enough for you!? 😭
The tunic worn by Roman legionaries was pretty similar to the tunic wore in civilian life, except the military belt was generally worn with it even when unarmored, as a status symbol. There’s considerable debate over whether tunics were undyed, dyed red (as a surviving example in Britannia was), or dyed different colors depending on the Legion.
If they just wore the groin guard, yes, it’d be enough.
lmao, vaguely related to that mental image… the Roman commander and politician, Mark Antony, was noted to wear scandalously short tunics to show off his muscular thighs. He was considered something of a ladies’ man (and, to hear his enemies, who were probably just seeing what slander would stick, a man’s man too).
But what’s the technical difference between a tunic and a sexy thigh-shown’-off mini dress?
None, really! Especially since both men and women wore tunics, and sex differentiation was primarily in formal wear.
Women generally wore sleeved tunics, but the fashion was sometimes for men to do so as well - Julius Caesar famously wearing long-sleeved tunics, to the abhorrence of traditionalists.
We need to bring back military dresses!
Battle dresses for our troops.
