Stola
A woman's dress worn over the under tunic. it came as low as the ankles or feet and was fastened round the body by a girdle, leaving above the breast broad folds The tunic did not reach much below the knee, but the essential distinction between the tunic and the stola seems to have been, that the latter always had an Instita or flounce sewed to the bottom and reaching to the instep.
The stola seems to have been usually fastened over the shoulder by a Fibula or clasp, and generally had sleeves, but not always. The Stola was the characteristic dress of the Roman matrons as the toga was of the Roman men. For the same reason women, who had been divorced from their husbands on account of adultery, were not allowed to wear the Stola, but only the Tunica.
