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In Ciceros time there was just coming into fashionable use a mantle called a lacerna, which seems to have been used first by soldiers and the lower classes and then adopted by their betters on account of its convenience

You could also go down the route of a business dress with ankle boots (comfortably healed, of course) or a pencil skirt with a casual blouse

For example, lighter fabrics like linen crinkle easily and thats hard to avoid, so embrace it, but ensuring your folded sleeves are neat and trim will avoid the look leaning into scruffiness

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Fashion was influenced by this pop-cultural romanticised view of the past, especially the Middle Ages and the Elizabethan Era, and for instance (small) Elizabethan ruffs appear in fashion plates from magazines of this time