The official garment of Romans was the toga, made of thick fabrics of white wool, cut in shape of crescent or semicircle, with a diameter that could reach up to 6 meters. Peasants, slaves and simple workers were forbidden to wear this garment.

Indoors, men wore a long tunic, below the knee, and large enough to be loose.

Roman women wore in general a flax shirt directly on the skin, and around the hips a piece of cloth. Over the shirt, they wore a long tunic, which reached the ground (sola), and on the shoulders a kind of shawl made of colored wool, called palla. With this last piece of clothing they covered their heads because no Roman woman went in public bareheaded.

Romans used metal fibulae (iron, bronze, gold, silver) or different needles for fixing their clothing.