Bread and Croutons

[Nerys Myk]

Apart from the tv gladiatorial games show, you don't see many Roman soldiers as it were! The people there are dressed like twentieth century people for the most part. The police uniforms are of a totalitarian state design while the leaders are clothed in loose fitting silver and black trousers or reddish brown tank tops for Merrick under which I thought was his SS Beagle uniform? The slaves all have the same blue/grey top with a chain sign near their neckline! And the shots of the city were famous ones from the US and even France!!!!
JB

Why would their everyday soldiers dress in ancient armor?

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Why would their everyday soldiers dress in ancient armor?

Dress uniforms often have obsolete motifs.
I doubt a US Navy Officer has used a sword in a hundred years.

Scott

 

[Nerys Myk]

Dress uniforms often have obsolete motifs.
I doubt a US Navy Officer has used a sword in a hundred years.

Scott

True, but you don't wear dress uniforms day to day and that's what I was referring to

 

[Henoch]

Dress uniforms often have obsolete motifs.
I doubt a US Navy Officer has used a sword in a hundred years.

Scott

Don't they cut cake with them at weddings?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why would their everyday soldiers dress in ancient armor?

I haven't seen the episode in awhile but I assume that if any soldier is seen wearing old-school armor, it's for the TV viewing audience.

Meaning, the TV show-within-a-show about gladiators that's broadcast to the Magna Roman public.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I haven't seen the episode in awhile but I assume that if any soldier is seen wearing old-school armor, it's for the TV viewing audience.

Meaning, the TV show-within-a-show about gladiators that's broadcast to the Magna Roman public.

That was my recollection.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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[M'Sharak]

Don't they cut cake with them at weddings?

They could cut bread into croutons.

 

[johnnybear]

Even their leading Senators didn't seem to be wearing any Togas either!
JB

 

[Nerys Myk]

Even their leading Senators didn't seem to be wearing any Togas either!
JB

Why, after 2000 years of cultural evolution would they?

 

[Ssosmcin]

The whole point was that they advanced to their "20th century" in clothing and technology. When you saw them as gladiators in the games, those were costumes representing their past. The Empire's police force were dressed like their police, with uniforms and helmets in some kind of lighter colored riot gear. These guys weren't stuck in 44 BC, so there's no reason to expect them to dress like they were.