> to keep its cultural cohesion late Roman Empire at one point banned trousers and shoes as barbarian and non-Roman Shoes? Really? I know that trousers were s

> to keep its cultural cohesion late Roman Empire at one point banned trousers and shoes as barbarian and non-Roman Shoes? Really? I know that trousers were seen (by both Greeks and Romans) as being barbarian, but the Romans definitely wore shoes. The most famous sort were the caligae, hobnailed sandals worn by legionaries- the pair worn by the young Gaius Caesar, son of Germanicus Julius Caesar, as part of his miniature military uniform gave him his better-known nickname of Caligula.