Stola Stola The stola was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga, that was worn by men. The stola was usually woollen. Originally, women wore togas as well, but after the 2nd century BC, the toga was worn exclusively by men, and women were expected to wear the stola. At that point, it was considered disgraceful for a woman to wear a toga; wearing the male garment was associated with prostitution and adultery. The stola was a staple of fashion in ancient Rome spanning from the early Roman Republic through the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire into the
Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain in 2003 as one of a series of books in American antebellum literature that helped establish the cultural ideal of the assertive, redemptive woman. Margaret Cohen, in the "Novel and the Sea", calls Fanny the "female equivalent of the crafty mariner.". In the nineteenth century, the novel inspired some of its female readers to follow in Fanny Campbell's footsteps. Sarah Emma Edmonds decided to dress as a man and fight for the Union in the Civil War after reading "Fanny Campbell". Maud Buckley, a captain's wife who eventually got her own license called her three masted schooner the Fanny Campbell,