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This category describes traditional and historic Australian clothing. Modern Australian clothing should be categorised under Australian fashion or Clothing companies of Australia Subcategories
This category describes traditional and historic Australian Aboriginal clothing. Modern Australian clothing should be categorised under Australian fashion or Clothing companies of Australia Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal clothing"
Aboriginal men in Victoria with war implements (c. 1883) by Fred Kruger A group of Aboriginal men in possum skin cloaks and blankets in 1858 at Penshurst in Victoria. In the 1800s Governor Lachlan Macquarie, after inspecting the recently forged road across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, wrote about meeting some members of the Wiradjuri at the Bathurst camp:
Outside of Carnival, the most traditional men's clothing is that of the malandro carioca (carioca rascal) or sambista, a stereotype of the samba singer, with white pants, a striped shirt, white jacket, and a straw hat. Many stereotypes that foreigners have regarding Brazilian folk costume (as well as other customs) actually come from the state ...
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the men wore pearl shells as a pubic covering, which they call Riji, [2] 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 worn by the women.
A group of Australian men wearing speedos. Australians generally have a relaxed attitude to what beachgoers wear, although this has not always been the case. At the start of the twentieth century a proposed ordinance in Sydney would have forced men to wear skirts over their "bathing costume" to be decent.
Australian fashion designers (2 C, 90 P) Australian models (11 C, 2 P) C. Clothing brands of Australia (76 P) Clothing companies of Australia (4 C, 11 P) E.
Woggabaliri is a traditional Indigenous Australian "co-operative kicking volley game". [54] The Indigenous in areas of and near New South Wales played a ball game called Woggabaliri. The ball was usually made of possum fur, and was played in a group of four to six players in circle. It was a co-operative kicking game to see for how long the ...