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Roman men generally wore two garments, the tunica and the toga. The tunica was a short woolen under garment with short sleeves. By contrast, to wear a long tunic with long sleeves was considered effeminate and was generally avoided by society as a whole.

Romans clothing indicated social status. The man on the far right, who wears only a tunic, was probably from one of the lowest classes - a slave or a freedperson. The man on the far left wears a toga, the costume of a Roman citizen.