Ancient Roman Characters -- Clothing check?

[juncmodule]

These are character templates for a project I'm working on. The setting is, obviously, Ancient Rome. Mainly I want to know if I have the clothing correct. I am a bit concerned about the female matron. Something doesn't look right. I'm thinking of making the toga part colored and the tunic white...Most stola's I've seen look similiar to this, I think.

Thanks,
-junc

[Moox]

senators should be purple as purple was expensive to import

[juncmodule]

Added one with the purple stripe. I run into a lot of conflicting sources with the purple stripe. Some say that only emperors were allowed to wear purple. From what I was able to find there was a special office that was able to wear purple. Most wore red stripes. I will have to look into that some more.

thanks,
-junc

[Moox]

I did a quick paint over

In your version the citizans have more cloth then the senators which shows more wealth. To counter that I added gold chains to the senators
I also changed the female hair a bit

[MoodyBlues]

These are great sprites.  What kind of game are you using them for?

Here's a link you might find useful:  http://www.crystalinks.com/romeclothing.html

[Warg]

senators should be purple as purple was expensive to import

Nah, purple was for the emperor to wear. But don't get too hung up on it, a lot of the sources from the Roman period are pretty unreliable, so if you want to do something do it.

What year are you setting this in?

Cheers

[juncmodule]

Nah, purple was for the emperor to wear.

Yeah, I found too many conflicting sources on this, so most likely I won't be using purple at all. Besides, I believe the year may dictate that.

I'm am about 90% positive that I will be setting it in the Republic around 80 BC or so. This is simply because I am reading Steven Saylor's Roman Blood at the moment and the detail that he gives is crazy good. Between that and a bookshelf filled with books on Ancient Rome and a stack of about 10 from the library, I think I have a pretty good mound of material to pull from. For some reason I always read more about consuls than emperors anyway. Emperors are a really tired subject when it comes to Ancient Rome.

I'm also not setting this in Rome, I'm setting it in a large fictional city outside of Rome. This way I won't get buried in technical details about the city.

What kind of game are you using them for?

It is going to be an adventure game drawn in planometric style. Inspired by Darth Mandarb's JP and Cosmo.

thanks for the link, I had found that site in my initial searches, the image at the top of the page was used for most of my clothing!

later,
-junc

[Akumayo]

I could be wrong but didn't the slave wear rags or worn out togas??