No man ever steps in the same river twice.”¹Heraclitus’ riddling remark about identityalso applies to Roman (dress) culture. Fortunately, the puzzling contradiction dependson words and not on objects. If we define the term ‘Roman dress culture’ in the broadestsense, it includes all the garments which Roman people (if we also allow for a broaddefinition of the term ‘Roman’) wore fro…