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This article has two goals. First, it gives a survey of archaeological remains of the “princely” feminine clothing of “Danubian-Pontic” tradition with two metallic fibulae in the 5th century Visigothic kingdom. Secondly, it aims at the identification of its effects in the “Hispanic-Visigothic” costume of middle class in the 2nd part of the 5th and 1st part of the 6th century. Feminine clothing is one of the most stable ethnographical clues in traditional societies. It may however also be an indication of belonging to the “ruling class”. In that case, prestige clothing, whatever its origins, is sooner or later imitated by “ordinary” people. As villagers’ communities in Visigothic Spain were mostly Romans, we may conclude that the diffusion of Danubian-Pontic “barbarian” fashion in this context demonstrates the onset of a fusion between the material culture of the Visigoths and the Hispanic Romans.