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lmao, vaguely related to that mental image... the Roman commander and politician, Mark Antony, was noted to wear scandalously short tunics to show off his muscular thighs. He was considered something of a ladies' man (and, to hear his enemies, who were probably just seeing what slander would stick, a man's man too).
But what's the technical difference between a tunic and a sexy thigh-shown'-off mini dress?
None, really! Especially since both men and women wore tunics, and sex differentiation was primarily in formal wear.
Women generally wore sleeved tunics, but the fashion was sometimes for men to do so as well - Julius Caesar famously wearing long-sleeved tunics, to the abhorrence of traditionalists.
We need to bring back military dresses!
Battle dresses for our troops.