books.google.co.uk - In Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A.D., a "new" kind of woman emerged across the Roman empire - a woman whose provocative dress and sometimes promiscuous lifestyle contrasted starkly with the decorum of the traditional...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Roman_Wives_Roman_Widows.html?id=cb3mOg_UATYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRoman Wives, Roman Widows
