1The covering for all is a cloak fastened with a brooch or, if that is lacking, with a thorn: otherwise uncovered, they spend whole days by the hearth and the fire. 1The wealthiest are distinguished by a garment that is not flowing, like those of the Sarmatians and Parthians, but tight and showing every limb. 2They also wear the skins of wild beasts, those nearest the riverbank carelessly, those further off with more refinement, since they have no finery through trade. 2They choose the beasts, and the hides they have stripped off they sprinkle with patches made from the pelts of creatures which the outer Ocean and an unknown sea produce.
3The women have no other dress than the men, except that the women more often wrap themselves in linen garments and vary these with purple, and they do not extend the upper part of their clothing into sleeves, being bare to the forearm and upper arm; 3and the nearest part of the breast is also exposed.