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2. Pareo - Wikipedia

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   The term was originally used only for women's skirts, as men wore a loincloth, called a maro. Nowadays the term is used for any cloth worn wrapped around the body by men and women. The pareo in Tahitian and pareu in Cook Islands were the first Pacific islands and original creators of the tapa board patterned prints.

3. Dupatta - Wikipedia

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   Indian village women wearing Odhni with Ghagra choli. The dupattā, also called chunni, chunari, chundari, lugda, rao/rawo, gandhi, pothi, orna, and odhni is a long shawl-like scarf traditionally worn by women in the Indian subcontinent. [1] Traditionally, in India, the dupatta is part of the women's lehenga or ghagra/chaniya choli. A lehenga ...

4. Wrap (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   "a long piece of cloth worn around the shoulders for warmth or decoration, usually by women" [2] "a loose piece of clothing that is worn tied around the body" [2] It can refer to a shawl or stole or other fabric wrapped about the upper body, or a simple skirt-type garment made by wrapping a piece of material round the lower body. Many people of ...

5. Shawl - Wikipedia

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   A stole can also be a fur or set of furs, usually fox, worn as a stole with a suit or gown; the pelage or skin, of a single animal (head included) is generally used with street dress while for formal wear a finished length of fur using the skins of more than one animal is used; the word stole stands alone or is used in combination: fur stole ...

6. Scarf (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Scarf, slang word for gulp or eat "wolfishly" (as in "scarfed down one's food") Scarf joint (also known as a scarph joint), a method of joining two members end to end in woodworking or metalworking; SCARF, a psychological framework developed by David Rock

7. Stole (vestment) - Wikipedia

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   The stole was originally a kind of shawl that covered the shoulders and fell down in front of the body; on women they were often very large. After being adopted by the Church of Rome around the seventh century (the stole having also been adopted in other locales prior to this), the stole gradually became narrower and started to feature more ...

8. Sari - Wikipedia

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   A sari (sometimes also saree [1] or sadi) [note 1] is a women's garment from the Indian subcontinent. [2] It consists of an un-stitched stretch of woven fabric arranged over the body as a robe, with one end attached to the waist, while the other end rests over one shoulder as a stole, [3] sometimes baring a part of the midriff.

9. Snood (headgear) - Wikipedia

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   This term was then applied to any netlike hat, and, in the 1930s, to a net bag headgear. This latter meaning became popular during the Second World war when women joined the workforce en masse and were required to wear the headgear to avoid their hair getting caught by the moving parts of the factory machinery.