With the prolific amount of dress diaries available on the internet in the modern era, I find it increasingly upsetting that there is not more on the dress of the Republic of Venice. As a commercial capital for over five centuries, Venice was a maritime power throughout the Mediterranean, yet very little is definatively known about the clothing of the Republic. In her, The Dress of the Venetians, 1495-1525 (1989), Stella M. Newton cataloged the trends seen in the archives of the . Even this seminal work marginalizes some of the most important clothing worn in the Republic, and some of the most regulated.
The togati, a class of men over the age of 25, were registered with the state and required to wear a civil uniform in public and most private settings throughout their lives. This regulated dress is catalogued in numerous portraits of the Venetian School, but due to the Toga, the outer garment worn by these men.
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