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Late 19th century barong tagalog made from piña with both pechera ("shirt front") and sabog ("scattered") embroidery, from the Honolulu Museum of Art. The barong tagalog, more commonly known simply as barong (and occasionally baro), is an embroidered long-sleeved formal shirt for men and a national dress of the Philippines.
For much of the twentieth century up to the mid-1990s, male police officers wore a dark blue (almost black) tunic with polished silver buttons (gold for the City of London Police), and trousers of matching colour with a sewn-in truncheon pocket. No stab vest was worn and much less equipment was carried than is today.
The men's traditional clothing consists of red loincloth called wanes with tribal patterns, tattoos which is a symbol for bravery, and colorful bead necklaces. Women's clothing are usually similar to men's except that the women wear wrap-around skirt or called lufid and usually topless. In some parts of Cordilleras such as the Igorots in ...
Bandhgala — also called Jodhpuri suit, worn by men in India, is a traditional dress; Barong tagalog — worn by men in the Philippines; Bisht — worn by men with thawb and shmagh or ghutrah and agal in formal and religious occasions, e.g. Eid, in some Eastern Arab countries like (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and others)
Male and female officer mess dress of the French Army. Until World War II officers of the French Army wore their full dress (grande tenue) uniforms for evening as well as daytime formal and ceremonial occasions. Naval officers however had a special mess uniform similar in style to that of the Royal Navy.
The Argentine Navy dress uniform is a navy blue rig with a visor cap for officers and senior ratings and sailor caps for junior ratings, epaulettes and sleeve rank marks (for all ranks), a sword and scabbard for officers, blue trousers for men and skirts for women, a belt, and black leather shoes or boots. Marines wear peaked caps with the ...
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The first women PMA cadets graduated in 1997. [3] As of 2020, Filipino women are allowed to fulfill combat duties within the Philippine Army. There are 795 officers and 3,777 soldiers in the army who are women. [4] The whole Armed Forces of the Philippines has 2,414 female commissioned officers and 7,843 enlisted personnel. [5]