What did the late Romans wear?

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What if I told you that the late roman outfits from say the fourth century AD and later, had changed dramatically as compared to the early roman dresses, and that you wouldn't even recognize a late roman outfit as roman. The toga was never particularly popular, because it was too complicated to wear, and at some point its use was restricted to senators. But it was worn by roman senators until the very end of the Roman Senate in the late sixth century AD. In military circles, the Chlamys would become the mainstream garment, sometimes a hat would be added, the pileus pannonicus, a hat that in some balkan countries is still worn even today in quite similar fashion. The Paenula, which had first only been worn by people of low social rank, had by the 3rd century AD become mainstream, and had been adopted as an everyday dress especially by the higher ranking Romans. Tunics were still worn, but the styling had also changed a lot by the fifth century, and it would change again in the later eastern roman empire, so that at some point, you would not recognize a roman as what we would naively imagine a roman to look like.