Augustus, always vigilant in his revival of traditional Roman customs, kept an ordinary wardrobe of clothing made for him by the women of his family.

On all but special occasions he wore house-clothes woven and sewn for him by either Livia, Octavia, Julia, or one of his grand-daughters.

Source: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De uita Caesarum (Augustus 40), translated by Robert Graves (London: Penguin,1957).