The "angusticlavia" was the tunic associated with the rank and office of the "eques", or equestrians, one of the two highest legal orders in aristocratic Rome. Order members were military men, often patricians ("patrici"), who served as the cavalry units in war. During times of peace they frequently served as personal assistants to Roman senators. Equestrians wore the angusticlavia under the trabea, a short toga of distinctive form and color. They also wore equestrian shoes ("calcei"), and a gold ring (anulus aureus). The tunic's stripes were about an inch wide, which contrasted with the senator's laticlavus, which bore three-inch wide stripes.