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<blockquote>Book 13: [Athena] dressed him in different clothes—a ragged cloak, a dirty tunic, ripped and disheveled, stained with stinking smoke. Then she threw around him a large hairless hide from a swift deer and gave him a staff and a tattered leather pouch, full of holes and with a twisted strap.</blockquote>
I think, based on this passage, it is easy to see how the cynics chose their uniform. It’s exactly the same as what Odysseus is wearing in Book 13 of the Odyssey. The uniform of poverty was well ingrained in the Greek consciousness from the time of Homer to the days of Diogenes and beyond.
