Roman fashion 100AD-200AD?

Question: Roman fashion 100AD-200AD!?

I am doing a project on ancient Rome!. I need to write a "newspaper article" on fashion!. It can be a little bit fictional but there has to be some truth!. Does anyone know any websites that have fashion from that period of time specifically!?!? ThanksWww@QuestionHome@Com

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The sites below might help!. Although they don't specifically date all the fashions to 100 - 200 AD, what people wore at that time was not that much different from earlier times!.

One thing that did change over time was that people tended to copy the physical characteristics of emperors and empresses!. For example, if the emperor had a beard, beards suddenly became fashionable!. If he didn't, more men went clean shaven!. Hadrian, who is in your timespan, was the first emperor to have a beard!. Women also tended to copy the hairstyle of the emperor's wife!. So in Flavian times, just before 100AD, you have these hairstyles with hair piled high on women's heads, probably making them look 8 inches taller!. Then later in the reign of Trajan, which falls in your timespan, you have much simpler women's hairstyles, copying Trajan's wife!.

What was always prized and used as a way of displaying wealth, was the texture or color of clothes because some dyes were very expensive!. Purple was the most expensive of the lot!.

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