Get Ready with Me- Ancient Rome Style

Hey Historical Fashion Friends!
Today I'm doing an Ancient Rome Get Ready with Me!
Forgive me if your research found something different than mine, I'm just starting my historical fashion research journey. This is for fun and I am not an Historian but I did my best to research what I could find on the topic.
If you want to see more on how I made these items here are the videos for each garment.
Tunica
• How to Make a Roman Tu...
Stolla
• Making a Roman Stola (...
Palla
• Making a Roman Palla a...
Tablet Weaving
• DIY Tablet Weaving Loo...
Calpurnia Coin image Published by Guillaume Rouille (1518?-1589) - "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum" Public Domain, commons.wikime...
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Thanks for going on this adventure with me!

[@sylviabb612]

I really would like dressing like this nowadays..! It looks bohemian, hippie, casual..love it ..!

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

It's super comfortable! You definitely should! Even one layer with a belt is very fun and comfy to wear out.

[@sylviabb612]

@@gabbytriestomakethings from Mexico, gracias 😊..!

[@zxyatiywariii8]

It's beautiful! I'd wear that if I had it, so lovely and comfortable 🥰

[@ak77167]

Do it! I kind of also have a unique style. Love to wear long dresses and bring some middle ages things in it. I get strange looks sometimes but its totally worth it

[@AveCaesar2025]

Do. I generally wear early Norman now that I'm much older but a couple of decades ago Roman tunica and palla were my daily wear. Very very comfortable and practical and if we're going to have the hot summer they are promising [this being Ireland anything over about 25degC is way too hot] I will be making some more clothing. I can say that the best fabric is actually lightweight summer wool suiting because it is cool in summer but lovely and warm in winter.

[@gbc7416]

You did really good! And the music was great for the mood.

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

Thank you! I tried to make a fun soundtrack to match the style!

[@ChristusLiberumPDX]

0:57 oh you’re royalty, I see 👸🏻

[@petraschenke8664]

Thanks for this great demonstration on how to sew roman womens cloth❤

[@Taire3D]

this is so cool, you got yourself a new subscriber! still impressed you made all the clothes yourself

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

So glad you enjoyed it! I'm really looking forward to doing another Get Ready with Me for the Early Medieval Period!

[@fortheearth]

Interesting demonstration. Looks authentic! Thanks.

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Great, thanks! I like this classic, simple hairstyle so much better than some of the later highly elaborate, huge puff-head ones of later Roman empresses. I never knew Calpurnia was featured on a Roman coin, cool. 🙂

[@SuzetteKath]

Due to how rare purple was in a dye. Only royalty could wear it. Plus, if she was of the royal house, she would have been wearing a few more items of jewelry.

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

I wish I had had more items of jewelry to put on but unfortunately did not. Thanks for commenting!

[@SingingSealRiana]

Thats not actually true especially not in rome, where thete was no royality to begin withthere where diffetent purple dyes in different parts of the world, main problem was making them colorfast and that for example linen did not take on to most colors well... Since a stola is usualy made from wool though, so does not share the problem. If anything, the deepness of color speaks for luxery!!! Just a friendly reminder, byzantium was part of ghe roman empire and they where obcessed with purple, rome had very different trading routes and therefor suplies then medival europe where the purple is unabtainable thing comes from

[@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410]

@@SingingSealRiana Tyrian purple is very well known for having been very expensive, because the creatures it's made from are relatively few and only make a miniscule amount of dye each, and largely reserved for very wealthy or otherwise important people, in the time of Rome or otherwise. This massive quantity of tyrian purple? Would definitely be something only affordable by royalty, which yes Rome definitely did have. It wasn't called the _Empire_ of Rome for nothing, and any close relation to the emperor could certainly be considered royalty by any metric. Even in the republican days, consuls are kings in all but name by and large, especially near the end (which is how it became an empire coincidentally) This is all widely known information that is very easy to find, there's no need to spread useless misinformation like you're doing

[@ChristusLiberumPDX]

True. This is also where the sewing of hair updos came in; someone else had to dress your hair to achieve these looks, indicative of royalty or nobility.

[@ashleyschwartz9550]

I’m inspired 😍

[@bluesman1947]

You look more like a "Ciociara" (you can google it) rather than an ancient Roman. And that' a compliment.

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

Thank you! Just looked it up. Very interesting!

[@homaLira]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Bjorn_Algiz]

Neat video.

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

@@Bjorn_Algiz thank you!

[@Noblebird02]

Do you think aristocratic ladies in 50 BC embroidered? Like Arsinoe, Calpurnia and Mariamne

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

I am not certain, but I would bet, based of later time period in history which I do know of, that it probably was a hobby past time for some. I will have to read up on it. They may have had others to do most of the work for them but I would bet some did.

[@Noblebird02]

@@gabbytriestomakethings I know Livia spun because the Emperor Augustus inisted all his clothes be homespun and homewoven.

[@orangeziggy348]

I have a place near me thats named Tunica Trace and now i know what Tunica means!

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

Cool!! Thanks for watching!

[@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410]

damn I wish my curls were that tight Mood on them grabbing each other, perpetually makes me want to shave it all off somedays lol

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

My natural curls are way looser but I used curlers to achieve the look. There are other ways like with ribbons and such to also get tighter curls but I used the old fashioned granny ones since my natural hair is sort of a curly wavy mix.

[@OleanderStarr]

We’ve been getting ridiculous triple digit weather in California, I’m going to do as the Ancient Romans did 😂

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

It hasn't been as hot where I specifically live in California but still up there. I'm rocking my various linen garments.

[@dialuann878]

Where do you buy the Ancient Roman makeup? Or how did you make it?

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

I made it with ingredients like charcoal powder and water for the eyeliner, I used just a regular blush I had and a setting powder of my skin tone because I didn't have access to any safe supplies that might have been from the time period.

[@cercamons]

The makeup is amazingly close. You could have stepped out of a fresco.

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

Thank you!!!

[@ChristusLiberumPDX]

Beautiful

[@nikkibrown1601]

omg that is how my named is spelled. Tunicia. omg. lol

[@ioxiv2905]

No it's tunica

[@gabbytriestomakethings]

Tunicia is a very cool name!