What did roman boys wear?

"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">In ancient Rome boys

wore belted tunics. This was their basic "tee shirt and jeans", so

to speak. The tunic reached to the knees and had short sleeves. In

the second century AD the style changed and long sleeves became

acceptable. They also wore cloak which was similar to that of girls

and was attached in the same manner: it was fastened at the

shoulder with a clasp called fibula. They wore shoes for outdoors

and sandals indoors. The toga preatexta, a white toga with a broad

purple border which was worn by officers of state and some

priesthoods and also by the senators of festival days, was

originally also worn by the sons of patricians. Later all freeborn

boys were allowed to wear it, although it was usually worn only by

rich boys. Later still, freeborn girls were also allowed the toga

preatexta until they got married (then they started wearing a

woman's stola). Children of both sexes wore a bulla with the toga

praetexta and stopped wearing it when they stopped wearing this

toga. The bulla was a circular plate or boss of metal suspended

from the neck. Its name was derived from its resemblance to a

bubble floating on water. At some time during teenage, usually

between 14 and 18, boys started to wear a man's toga, the toga

virilis. The first wearing of the toga virilis was part of the

celebrations on reaching maturity which involved a procession form

the Forum to the Capitoline hill. The wearing of the toga virilis

was called tirocinium fori, which was an introduction and training

for public life.