Mary Harlow has recently retired from a position as Associate Professor in Ancient History at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests range from the life course to the study of dress and accessories in the Roman period. She has published extensively and most recently contributed to, and edited and co-edited, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion (2017), A Cultural History of Hair (2019), Textiles and Gender in Antiquity (with Cécile Michel and Louise Quillien, 2020) and A Cultural History of Shopping (with Ray Laurence, 2022).

Lena Larsson Lovén is Professor in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her main research focus lies with studies on dress and textiles, visual cultures, gender studies, and aspects of socioeconomic history in the Roman world. She is the founder of the ARACHNE network and has edited several volumes from ARACHNE conferences. Her recent publications include “Visual Representations” in A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion (2017), “Gender and Textile Production in Roman Society and Politics”, in Textiles and Gender in Antiquity (2020), and “Male and Female Work in Images and Inscriptions from Ostia and Portus” (2021).