Roman dress and the fabrics of Roman culture
By: edited by Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith.
Contributors: Edmondson, J. C.; Keith, Alison.
Series: Phoenix.  Supplementary volume = Tome supplémentaire -- 46. -- Studies in Greek and Roman social history -- 1; Phoenix -- 46.; Phoenix -- 1.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto [Ont.]; Buffalo [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780802093196
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Rome; Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Rome; Clothing and dress -- Rome; Vêtements -- Aspect social -- Rome; Vêtements -- Aspect symbolique -- Rome; Vêtements -- Rome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-329) and indexes.

Includes some text in Latin.
Table of contents: title: Public dress and social control in late republican and early imperial Rome / Jonathan Edmondson; title: Togam virilem sumere : coming of age in the Roman world / Fanny Dolansky; title: The double identity of Roman portrait statues : costumes and their symbolism at Rome / Michael Koortbojian; title: The 'dark side' of the toga / Michelle George; title: (Un)dressed to kill : viewing the retiarius / Michael Carter; title: The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl / Kelly Olson; title: Covering the head at Rome : ritual and gender / Elaine Fantham; title: Designing women : the representation of women's toiletries on funerary monuments in Roman Italy / Leslie Shumka; title: Sartorial elegance and poetic finesse in the Sulpician corpus / Alison Keith; title: The woven garment as literary metaphor : the peplos in Ciris 9-41 / Riemer Faber; title: Spinning the trabea : consular robes and propaganda in the Panegyrics of Claudian / Michael Dewar; title: Appearing for the defence : Apuleius on display / Keith Bradley; title: Tertullian's De pallio and Roman dress in North Africa / T. Corey Brennan; title: Prudery and chic in late antique clothing / Guy P.R. Metraux.