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The kanzu is the traditional wedding attire for men in the Great Lakes region. [1] During wedding ceremonies it is customary for the groom to wear a white kanzu and a kofia . In Tanzania and Kenya, the groom wears a black or white bisht on top of the kanzu. [ 5 ]
The white filipina shirt is still regarded as the traditional formal dress for men in Yucatán, along with the terno for women (cf. traje de Mestiza of the Philippines). In particular, white filipinas are the traditional shirts worn for the jarana Yucateca dance, paired with white trousers. This suggests an origin from the Philippines that ...
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.
The thawb dates back to the arrival of Islam in the Arab world in roughly 600 AD. It was a long- or short-sleeved gown worn over the qamis, an undergarment, by both men and women. The word thawb during this time was a general term for clothing and fabric because most types of clothing were mere pieces of cloth, or shiqqa.
There is no specific and common dress for Saudi women. However, when outside the home, they typically wear the black abaya, [12] which is the most common color. Some women also choose to wear colored abayas. Additionally, they wear a head covering called the Tarhah (Shaila), and some also opt to wear a face-covering veil called the Niqaab.
The Qin dynasty adopted a coloured-clothing system, which stipulated people who held higher position (officials of the third rank and above) wore green shenyi while common people wore normal white shenyi. [66]: 183 [32] The Han Chinese wore the shenyi as a formal dress and was worn together with a guan and shoes.
A chokha, [a] also known as a cherkeska, [2] is a woolen coat with a high neck that is part of the traditional male dress of peoples of the Caucasus. [3] It was in wide use among Avars, Eastern Armenians [4] Abazins, Abkhazians, Azerbaijanis, Balkars, Chechens, Circassians, Georgians, Ingush, Karachays, Kumyks, Nogais, Ossetians, Tats, the peoples of Dagestan, as well as Terek, Kuban [4 ...