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However, even the tunic (toga for posh wear) loving Romans had a trouser influx. Partly from extensions to the empire, and partly due to legions fighting abroad adopting local modes of dress.
It became so bad that joint emperors Honorius & Arcadius, in 397, issued decrees banning trousers. The penalty was perpetual exile.
Not that the trouser ban did the Romans much good, thirteen years later King Alaric of the Visigoths sacked the city. The Visigoths wore trousers.