Tags: Fashion, Topical Concept.
A birrus or birrus brittanicus was a rainproof hooded woollen cloak (or simply a hood alone) characteristically worn in Britain and Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire and into the Middle Ages.A mosaic at Chedworth Roman Villa shows a Briton wearing a birrus brittanicus there is also one shown on a statue of a ploughman at the British Museum.