"head-scarf to the burqa. Men may sometimes choose to wear men's skirts such as togas or kilts in particular cultures, especially on ceremonial occasions. Such garments were (in previous times) often worn as normal daily clothing by men. Clothing designed to be worn by either sex is called unisex clothing. Unisex clothes, such as T-shirts, tend to be cut straighter to fit a wider variety of bodies. The majority of unisex clothing styles have started out as menswear, but some articles, like the fedora, were originally worn by women. In some societies, clothing may be used to indicate rank or"
"beadwork"" and other ornaments. Other items of native clothing during pre-Spanish Philippines were the canga and the bahag. The ""canga"" is a type of a collarless shirt – which later became adorned with laces, trimmings, buttons, and a collar – was where from the Barong Tagalog evolved. On the other hand, the ""bahag"" was a type of loincloth or G-string. Present-day Filipinos, due to climatic reasons, prefer to wear T-shirts combined with maong (jeans) trousers for men and skirts for women. The ""jeans and T-shirts"" combination was introduced to the Filipinos by the Americans.[1] A common attire while at home"
"Tagelmust The tagelmust (also known as cheich, cheche and ""litham"") is an indigo-dyed cotton garment, with the appearance of both a veil and a turban. The cloth may exceed ten meters in length. It is mostly worn by Tuareg Berber men, and is sometimes also used by men in other neighbouring ethnic groups, such as the Hausa or Songhai. In recent times, other colors have come into use, with the indigo veils saved for use on special occasions. It usually has many layers that cover the head, and it drapes down to loosely cover the neck. It is also worn"
"beads and has colorful designs. The skirt is also wider than what lower classes wore. These types of clothing that are ""simple yet functional"" that have both indigenous Filipino qualities and Spanish influence started to become prominent during the 16th-century in the Philippines. Such clothing, through the innovation of modern-day Filipino fashion designers, can be worn in the Philippines for formal occasions and office uniforms. These ""national clothes"" can be made from materials such as ""piña"", ""jusi"", abaca, and Mindanao silk. ""Barong Tagalog"" is a clothing worn by men. Originated in Luzon, this clothing is made of pineapple fiber and"
"American communities. According to those who claim that the baro is the precursor of the ""guayabera"", the ""guayabera"" shirt was originally called the """"Filipina"""" since Manila-Acapulco Galleons brought the shirt to Mexico from the Philippines. Barong Tagalog The Barong Tagalog, more commonly known as simply barong (and occasionally called baro), is an embroidered formal shirt and considered the national dress of the Philippines. It is lightweight and worn untucked over an undershirt. The Barong Tagalog was popularized as formal wear by President Ramón Magsaysay, who wore it to most private and state functions, including his own inauguration. In Filipino culture"
"used to show clan and regional origin, and the darkness to which it is dyed showing the wealth of the wearer. Tagelmust The tagelmust (also known as cheich, cheche and ""litham"") is an indigo-dyed cotton garment, with the appearance of both a veil and a turban. The cloth may exceed ten meters in length. It is mostly worn by Tuareg Berber men, and is sometimes also used by men in other neighbouring ethnic groups, such as the Hausa or Songhai. In recent times, other colors have come into use, with the indigo veils saved for use on special occasions. It"
"Pagri (turban) Pagri, Pagadi (, , , , , ) is the term for turban in the Indian subcontinent. It specifically refers to a headdress that is worn by men and women,which needs to be manually tied. Other names include Sapho () and Fagri (). A Pagri is usually a long plain unstitched cloth. The length may vary according to the type. The cloth indicates the region and the community of the wearer. The paag is a headdress in the Mithila region of Bihar and in Mithila, Nepal and is worn by Maithil people. It is a symbol of honour"
"white pants called tirq or a fustanella which is a skirt like costume. The women wear a xhubleta which is a skirt like type of clothing as well, only it can resemble more as an apron in the front instead. Before wearing the shoes, both men and women had socks or Çorape and finally came the Openga or shoes worn by men, whereas women would usually wear wooden clogs. In the past they used decorated guns, decorated pocket clocks, decorated cigarettes boxes etc. . Today plis and tirq are being worn combined with European modern clothes to symbolize national identity."
"Jellabiya The jellabiya or ""galabeya"" ( / ALA-LC: ' or ' ; ""jelebeeya"" in Ethiopia; ""jehllubeeya"" in Eritrea) is a traditional Egyptian garment native to the Nile Valley. The same term used to refer to the traditional Sudanese and Eritrean clothes, but both look different than the popular Egyptian garment which is worn by both Egyptian males and females and is much more colorful. It differs from the Arabic thawb in that it has a wider cut, no collar (in some cases, no buttons) and longer, wider sleeves. In case of farmers, these sleeves can be very wide and sewn"
"or native trousers that are sewn alongside the above-mentioned dresses. Some of these are ""Kèmbè"" (Three-Quarter baggy pants), ""Gbáanu"", ""Sóóró"" (Long slim / streamlined pants), ""Káamu"" & ""Sòkòtò Elemu"". A man's dressing is considered incomplete without a cap (""Fìlà""). Some of these caps include, but are not limited to; ""Gobi"" (Cylindrical, which when worn may be compressed and shaped forward, sideways, or backward), ""Tinko"", ""Abetí-ajá"" (Crest-like shape which derives its name from its hanging flaps that resembles a dog's hanging ears. The flaps can be lowered to cover the ears in cold weather, otherwise, they are upwardly turned in normal"
"weather), ""Alagbaa, Oribi, Bentigoo, Onide"", and ""Labankada"" (a bigger version of the Abetí-ajá, and is worn in such a way as to reveal the contrasting color of the cloth used as underlay for the flaps). Women also have different types of dresses. The most commonly worn are ""Ìró"" (wrapper) and ""Bùbá"" (blouse-like loose top). Women also have matching ""Gèlè"" (head gear) that must be put on whenever the Ìró and Bùbá is on. Just as the cap (Fìlà) is important to men, women's dressing is considered incomplete without Gèlè. It may be of plain cloth or costly as the women"
"which things could be hung, such as small game like goannas in order to free the hands on long walks and hunts. Among some tribes, adults wear a loincloth-like pubic covering, which also hung from the waist belt. This was made either of the string itself, or of other material, including paperbark. In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the men wear pearl shells as a pubic covering, which they call ""Riji"", and which are considered extremely sacred. The string could be dyed various shades using dyes such as ochre. Some string was only worn for ceremony, such as skirts"
"by one to form a continuous filament to be handwoven and then made into a piña cloth. Kalibo, Aklan, is the main and the oldest manufacturer/weaver of piña cloth in the Philippines which are being exported to various parts of the world most particularly North America, and Europe. Piña weaving is an age-old tradition which was recently revived in the past 20 years. Pineapple silk was considered the queen of Philippine fabrics and is considered the fabric of choice of the Philippine elite. During the 1996 APEC summit held in the Philippines, world leaders donned Barong Tagalog made of piña"
"the Philippines as "" (Tagalog: 'wormed'), which uses a form of French gold bullion thread to make embroidered floral patterns on the statue's clothing. Headdresses are also an integral part of a ', often encrusted with costume jewelry (such as paste and rhinestones) or real precious stones, to symbolize the spiritual wealth of the saint. The most common headdress for images is the ' (halo) behind or above the head, while regal figures wear an additional ' (crown or coronet). A halo decorating the perimeter of the face, known as a ' or ', is commonly found but not restricted"
"may wear ""nigepan"", the traditional costume, especially when guests are arriving. The traditional dress of men is a loincloth (sirat or cawat), animal skin coat (gagong), peacock and hornbill feathers (lelanjang) headware, chains over the neck (marik), silver armlets and anklelets along with a shield, sword and spear. Men are decorated with tribal tattoos (kalingai or pantang in Iban) which signify their life experience and journey. A frog design on the front of the man's neck and or tegulun designs on the backs of the hand indicate the wearer has chopped off a human head or killed a man in"
"(turban). Jellabiya The jellabiya or ""galabeya"" ( / ALA-LC: ' or ' ; ""jelebeeya"" in Ethiopia; ""jehllubeeya"" in Eritrea) is a traditional Egyptian garment native to the Nile Valley. The same term used to refer to the traditional Sudanese and Eritrean clothes, but both look different than the popular Egyptian garment which is worn by both Egyptian males and females and is much more colorful. It differs from the Arabic thawb in that it has a wider cut, no collar (in some cases, no buttons) and longer, wider sleeves. In case of farmers, these sleeves can be very wide and"
"are ordinary puruntongs (singular: ""puruntong"", a type of pair of shorts or Capri pants) combined with sleeveless shirts or T-shirts. During the rainy season and cold evenings in December and January, some Filipinos wear hooded jackets.[1] During the archaic epoch, before the colonizers from Europe discovered the islands, the different tribes and kingdoms wore their respective clothing. The Filipino style of clothing had been dictated by the tropical climate in the Philippines, with a dry and rainy season. Early Filipinos – as well as the still extant tribal groups in the Philippines – wore colorful woven clothes, often with ""intricate"
"Zibellino A zibellino, flea-fur or fur tippet is a women's fashion accessory popular in the later 15th and 16th centuries. A zibellino, from the Italian word for ""sable"", is the pelt of a sable or marten worn draped at the neck or hanging at the waist, or carried in the hand. The plural is ""zibellini"". Some zibellini were fitted with faces and paws of goldsmith's work with jeweled eyes and pearl earrings, while unadorned furs were also fashionable. The earliest surviving mention of a marten pelt to be worn as neck ornament occurs in an inventory of Charles the Bold,"
"Barong Tagalog The Barong Tagalog, more commonly known as simply barong (and occasionally called baro), is an embroidered formal shirt and considered the national dress of the Philippines. It is lightweight and worn untucked over an undershirt. The Barong Tagalog was popularized as formal wear by President Ramón Magsaysay, who wore it to most private and state functions, including his own inauguration. In Filipino culture it is a common formal attire, especially at weddings. Less formal variants are used in schools, universities and offices. Occasionally a feminized version is worn by women, either as an egalitarian or ""haute couture"" fashion"
"Tapis (Philippine clothing) Among cultures in the Philippines, Tapis may generally refer to a single rectangular piece of cloth one wraps around oneself as clothing, but usually specifically applies to a colorful hand-woven wraparound skirt which was commonly used by women throughout the Philippines before the arrival of Spanish colonizers, and which is still used today as part of the Maria Clara gown and also by some indigenous tribes. The tapis worn by the Cordilleran women of Northern Luzon, known locally as the ""alampay"", are the most prominent example. It is worn by wrapping the cloth around one's waist and"
"Firaq partug The term firaq partug refers to a number of outfits traditionally worn by women in Afghanistan. The styles vary according to region. The outfits consists of three garments: chador, firaq and partug. The chador is the head scarf which can be of varying lengths. Firaq refers to the upper garment which flows out from the waist, like a skirt, with some styles reaching to the ankles and other styles reaching below the knees. The firaq is also called qameez. Partug is a type of shalwar and is the lower garment which is baggy, gathered at the ankles and"
"as necklaces and beads. Both men and women wore wrappers. Men would wear loin cloths that wrapped around their waist and between their legs to be fastened at their back, the type of clothing appropriate for the intense heat as well as jobs such as farming. Men could also tie a wrapper over their loin cloth. Modern Igbo traditional attire is generally made up, for men, of the Isiagu top which resembles the African Dashiki. Isiagu (or ""Ishi agu"") is usually patterned with lions heads embroidered over the clothing, It can also be plain, (usually black). It is worn with"
"The most distinctive indigenous clothing garment is the huipil (a kind of loose blouse or dress), which is produced by several cultures, such as the Mixtec, Tlapanec and Amuzgo. Backstrap looms are used in Mixtec and Tlapaneca communities to make sarapes and gabanes (a kind of overcoat) which are somewhat crude, dyed with natural or commercial dyes in contrasting patterns. The best sarapes are made in Amoltepec and the best gabanes are the try with red stripe variety made in Malinaltepec. Another distinctive garment is the ""enredo nahuatl"" (a kind of wrap belt), made of cotton dyed blue with three"
"meaning curly hair, was applied to any short skirt or blouse; and some better ones made of imported chintz or calico were simply called by the name of the cloth itself, tabas. So, too, the wraparound skirt the Tagalogs called tapis was hardly considered a skirt at all: Visayans just called it habul (woven stuff) or halong (abaca) or even hulun (sash). The usual male headdress was the pudong, a turban, though in Panay both men and women also wore a head cloth or bandana called ""saplung"". Commoners wore pudong of rough abaca cloth wrapped around only a few turns"
"formal occasions—blouses and tunics, loose smocks with sleeves, capes, or ankle-length robes. The textiles of which they were made were similarly varied. In ascending order of value, they were abaca, abaca decorated with colored cotton thread, cotton, cotton decorated with silk thread, silk, imported printstuff, and an elegant abaca woven of selected fibers almost as thin as silk. In addition, Pigafetta mentioned both G-strings and skirts of bark cloth. Untailored clothes, however had no particular names. ""Pandong"", a lady's cloak, simply meant any natural covering, like the growth on banana trunk’s or a natal caul. In Panay, the word ""kurong"","
"a ""kmisha"" (""këmisha""), which means shirt, and a ""fanella"", which means jumper. Also worn atop those clothes is a ""xhamadan"" or a man's short close-fitting white vest like jacket with black embroidery on the sides. The ""xhybeli"" or sleeveless vest with heavy yellow embroidery along the chest and neck area and a ""mitan"" (""mintan"") or tight fitting often black coloured vest with heavy embroidery along the sleeves. ""Tirgj"" (""tirq"") or white woolen pants with strips of black embroidery on the side from the waist till ankle and around the pocket areas located around the front waist area were worn by"
"surrounding mountains. Djellaba The djellaba (; Moroccan Arabic: جلابة; Berber: ""Aselham"") is a long, loose-fitting unisex outer robe with full sleeves that is worn in the Maghreb region of North Africa; its origin is Morocco. The word literally means ""attractive"", from ""jalaba"", ""to bring"", ""fetch""; its Semitic root is ""glb"". Traditionally, djellabas are made of wool in different shapes and colours, but lightweight cotton djellabas have now become popular. Among the Berbers, or Imazighen, such as the Imilchil in the Atlas Mountains, the colour of a djellaba traditionally indicates the marital status (single or married) of the bearer: a dark"
"at ethnic festivals, religious holidays, weddings and by dancing groups. Some conservative old men and women mainly from the high northern as well as southern lands wear those costumes in their daily lives. They was made mainly of products from the local agriculture and livestock such as leather, wool, linen, hemp fiber and silk. The textiles nowadays are still embroidered in very claborate ancient patterns. Among the most important parts of clothing includes the Qeleshe, or also known as Plis, the Albanian hat, the Qylafë, the Fustanella, the Xhubleta, the Xhamadan, the Brez, the Çorape, the Opinga and many others."
"Djellaba The djellaba (; Moroccan Arabic: جلابة; Berber: ""Aselham"") is a long, loose-fitting unisex outer robe with full sleeves that is worn in the Maghreb region of North Africa; its origin is Morocco. The word literally means ""attractive"", from ""jalaba"", ""to bring"", ""fetch""; its Semitic root is ""glb"". Traditionally, djellabas are made of wool in different shapes and colours, but lightweight cotton djellabas have now become popular. Among the Berbers, or Imazighen, such as the Imilchil in the Atlas Mountains, the colour of a djellaba traditionally indicates the marital status (single or married) of the bearer: a dark brown djellaba"
"Opdebec. This design does not use springs, but is fashioned in one piece, with the two prongs part of the peg chassis with only a small distance between them—this form of peg creates the gripping action due to the two prongs being wedged apart and thus squeezing together in that the prongs want to return to their initial, resting state. This form of peg is often fashioned from plastic, or originally, wood. In England, clothes-peg making used to be a craft associated with the Romani people, commonly know by the slur gypsy, who made clothes-pegs from small, split lengths of"
"full skirt to a more modern look and then again changed into the current Filipiniana popularized by Imelda Marcos in the 1960s. Men wore Barong Tagalog but with also a more elaborate and intricate designs. In the islands of the Visayas regions, the Kimona represents Visayan clothing. Most Visayan lowland people wear the typical ""Kimona"", a type of Baro't Saya blouse matching with a knee-length skirt. ""Kimona"" is typically a transparent piece of clothing made of pineapple fiber while the skirt is usually either floor-length or knee-length printed with the Patadyong pattern, hence getting the name ""Patadyong"" skirt. The dress"
"animal tendons known as sinew are used to make their clothing and footwear, and to sew bedding, tents and kayak covers. These tendons are usually sliced off the long muscles on either side of the spine of a caribou or beluga whale. Sometimes shorter tendons are taken from other animals' parts such as bird's foot. Yup'iks sewed using caribou (""tuntut yualuit, tuntut ivaluit""), moose (""tuntuviit yualuit, tuntuviim eglua"") or beluga (""cetuat yualuit"") sinews as thread in the old days. The hand-twisted sinew thread is ""yualukiuraq"" (in Yup'ik) or ""qip'ar"" (in Cup'ig). The ""iwalukegcaun"" (in Cup'ig) is wax or soap put"
"Bengaline Bengaline is a woven silk-and-cotton material which became fashionable for women and children to wear in the 1880s and 1890s. It offered the impression of genuine silk but was made with lesser amounts of silk than cotton. Lizzie Borden stated at her December 1892 inquest that she was wearing a dress made of bengaline silk on the morning she was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. The fabric went out of fashion when completely smooth-surfaced materials became popular. Piqué, coachman's whipcord, diagonal serge, and surah are similar to bengaline silk. Surah was once known in France as silk"