The stola was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga, or the pallium, that was worn by men.

Originally, women wore togas as well, but after the 2nd century BCE, the toga was worn exclusively by men, and women were expected to wear the stola. At that point in time, it was considered disgraceful for a woman to wear a toga; wearing the male garment was associated with prostitution and adultery.

Although the stola was a Roman garment, it was inspired by the clothing of ancient Greece. It was a staple of fashion in ancient Rome spanning from the early Roman Republic through the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire into the first millennium. Probably the most noted image of the stola resides on the fact that it is the garment that the Statue of Liberty in New York City wears.

The stola was a long, pleated dress, worn over an undergarment called a tunic or tunica intima (the Roman version of a slip). The stola was generally sleeveless but versions of it did have short or long sleeves. These sleeves could belong to the stola itself or be a part of the tunic. The traditional sleeveless stola was fastened by clasps at the shoulder called fibulae. The stola was typically girt with ribbons, and typically had two belts. The first was worn just below the breasts creating a great amount of folds. The second and wider belt was worn around the waist.

Dara Bubamara (Serbian: Дара Бубамара) (born May 21, 1976 in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is the stage name of a popular Serbian pop-folk singer. Born as Radojka "Rada" Adžić, she grew up in Satelit, a neighborhood of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her parents moved to Novi Sad from Derventa, Bosnia and Herzegovina before Rada was born. One of her most popular songs is "Košava sa Dunava", which was a hit in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Other notable songs include "Zidovi", "Dodirni me", and "Dobro jutro nikome".