Roman uniform costume

Another cool find is this screen used Roman costume, these uniforms appeared in the series with different variants during season 2-6.

 

The costume includes a heavy leather riveted cuirass, red rustic fabric shirt, red rustic fabric skirt, woven garnet cape, leather boots and a pair of leather gauntlets. We are familiar with the leather cuirass variant that reminds me the leather cuirass worn by Xena in the episode “A good day” from season. 4.

It is interesting to see that the shirts and skirts design were modified during the series evolution and historical periods. 

 

The early design in Caesar’s empire was a reddish rustic fabric shirt and a very simple skirt with an elastic band to adjust to the waist. 

However, Livia’s army soldiers used a much more sophisticated design in shirts and skirts. In this case, they are made of pale linen fabric with a red satin ribbon around. The pleated skirt has some painted decorative motifs too.

The linen shirt and skirt have a tag inside that is written: “Senetus” (Livia’s commander) and was seen in the episode “Eve” from season 5.

Some costumes are just resurfacing after more than 25 years after the series ended. Many of them had never appeared before, I am happy they are back thanks to some research I have made in recent years.

Here some details of the roman costume.