Yes, I was surprised to learn once that high-status prepubescent Roman boys and girls wore the toga praetexta, which was bordered in expensive purple and was otherwise reserved for the exclusive club of wealthy men who had managed to be elected senior magistrates.

It’s interesting that the purple dye itself was as expensive as most expensive jewelry, but you never saw sumptuary laws telling powerful man that they couldn’t wear their purple stripes. (Though other purple garments were sometimes temporarily banned.) Just another example of how things don’t change much!