A peplum is ...a short flouce on a jacket

and just what is the connection, linguistic or invented, at your discretion, between peplum as above and Peplum (plural: pepla) is a distinct film genre. The common English language term is "'sword & sandal film (as per Gladiators?)


wow, please don't hit me for the date on this url http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/limerick/123/vint/peplum.html
It does say it is the "latest" fashion though! and Helen, that MUST be you at http://www.janeswool.com/peplum.htm

Rod