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2. Wrap dress - Wikipedia

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   Woman wearing a jiaoling pao with a wide belt enclosing the waist, Tang dynasty. The traditional clothing of the Han Chinese, Hanfu, are traditionally loose, wrap-style garments; these include wrap-style robes, such as the ancient shenyi (which sews a top and a skirt to form a dress), the zhiduo, the daopao, and the jiaoling pao (a one-piece dress), etc., as well as wrap-style upper garments ...

3. Belt (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   The keeper loop stops the free end of the belt from flapping around once the belt is buckled. Some belts also have an end tip (made of metal or leather) covering the free end of the belt to protect it from damage. [1] On dresses, robes, jumpsuits, and gowns, belts do not hold up the garment but may draw in its waist and define or accentuate it.

4. Obi (sash) - Wikipedia

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   A kyōbukuro obi is about 30 centimetres (12 in) wide and 350 centimetres (11.5 ft) long. [17] Maru obi (丸帯, "one-piece obi ") is the most formal type of women's obi, though all but obsolete today. It is made from cloth about 68 cm wide [21] and is folded around a double lining and sewn together.

5. Garter - Wikipedia

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   A garter belt attached to stockings A woman with her suspenders visible. Suspenders or suspender belts, also known as "garter belts" in American English, are an undergarment consisting of an elasticated material strip usually at least 2 to 3 inches (5.1 to 7.6 cm) in width; it can be wider. Two or three elastic suspender slings are attached on ...

6. Weddings in the United States and Canada - Wikipedia

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   Many brides today choose to wear white bridal dresses at their weddings. However, brides before the 19th century just wore the best dress they owned. It wasn't until the 1840s, when Queen Victoria (who was monarch of Canada at the time) popularized white bridal dresses by choosing to wear white instead of the traditional royal silver dress.

7. List of medieval armour components - Wikipedia

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   Mail shirt reaching to the mid-thigh with sleeves. Early mail shirts generally were quite long. During the 14th–15th century hauberks became shorter, coming down to the thigh. A haubergeon reaches the knee. The haubergeon was replaced by the hauberk due to the use of plate; with the legs now encased in steel, the longer mail became redundant ...