Considering the winter temperatures in Britainia (and Germania) it's no wonder! All of the Roman reenactors I know have wool socks that they wear with their calligae. It beats frostbitten toes.
They also used to paint all those elegant marble statues to look "realistic". I shudder to think how some of those color combinations looked on a statue - -
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