Much of Roman clothing was designed to reveal the social status of its wearer, particularly for freeborn men. In typical Roman fashion, the more distinguished the wearer, the more his dress was distinctively marked, while the dress of the lowest classes was often not marked at all.

A summary of the fashions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Many of us have false ideas of the everyday life of a Roman. Did slaves really wear dog tags? Were criminals mauled by bears and lions in the Colosseum? Here are five interesting facts, you may not have know!