Hellooooooo everyone!

I'm working on a project and I need names of different clothing across the world, I am looking stuff up myself but who better to ask than the world itself!?

Basically, if there is something native to your country that wouldn't be commonly known by name.

Like for example: A burqa (I hope I'm spelling right) is what women wear over their faces in Iraq, but people might not know the name, just that it's something that middle-eastern women wear.

Any of your countries that have something that is unique to your country I'd like to know it would help me a lot!

Thank you for the help!


~ God Bless ~

~ Moko

At the moment all I can think of are these Swedish words:

* Träsko (wooden shoe) http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A4sko
* Kolt or Samedräkt (traditional outfit worn by the Sami people of north Scandinavia) http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samedr%C3%A4kt
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Griatch

France:
- espadrille
- charentaise
- beret
- kabig (breton)
- marinière (according to Monty Python)
- vareuse

Here in Canada:

A tuque (knit cap worn in the winter)
A siwash (a kind of knit sweater)

-Rob A>

Sorry Moko. Us English are quite boring - no culture at all!

Don't know about that Erisian, you could have a Bowler Hat or Straw boater, go across the border to Scotland and you will find kilts and sporrans.

But if you enlarge your cultural area to the British isles you can include the kilt...

The Americans gave the jeans to the world and fortunately kept form themselves the loud trousers they put on to play golf

You may have this link already
but just incase you don't http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/00927/

Also in Australia sweaters are called jumpers.

Aboriginal Clothing - http://www.gondwananet.com/aboriginal-clothing.html

I can think of one piece of clothing most often associated with the cowboys of the American West.

Chaps - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaps

Here in Germany we have this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl but its more common in Bavaria. Then we have the Sorbs here in Germany but I dunno how their clothing is called. See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracht But we don't have something that is typically a german folk costume.

Moko, although not strictly another type of clothing, here are some names (some derived from brand names) that are in common usage in Australia.
Blunnies, a type of ankle boot made by Blundstone
Drizabone, a waterproof coat made by Driza_Bone
Thongs, Not an undergarment but a toe sandal or a flipflop
Ugg Boots, a woolly lined comfort boot
Jackie Howe, a blue singlet made famous by a shearer
Budgie smugglers, very close fitting swimwear for men like speedo's
Clobber, a general term for clothing

Germany:
Dirndl
Lederhose

i second griatch's swedish contributions, but i have more to offer too. here's the costumes worn in the area where i grew up: orsa costume

the whole thing is called an orsadräkt (orsa costume, this is the female variety), but all the parts have their own names.
the apron: magd
the skirt: swart-tjossl
the bodice: böd
the decorative "bib": ässklä
the blouse: ivördel
usually there are ribbons with tassels worn as a sort of belt, they are called "tuppbånd" or just "tuppur".

i also have loads of words for indopak clothing.
for example, an ordinary combination of long blouse and wide, slightly puffy pants is called a shalwar kameez. the blouse is a kameez, the bottoms are called shalwar.

if you instead where these long, fitted pants you have a chudidar kameez or a chudidar suit. the pants of this style are called chudidar.

very often, though, you wear a wide-skirted kameez with the chudidar. that type of kameez can be long and look just like a dress, or shorter, a sort of dress-like tunic, and then you're wearing an anarkali suit. i love this type of dress best, they are amazing!

if you're getting married or going to a fancy party, you might want to wear a special skirt and top combination known as a lehnga choli. the skirt is a lehnga and it's usually wide or mermaid style, but there are many varieties. the top is fitted and often very short, but occasionally as long as to the hips and this type of top is a choli. cholis are also worn under a sari.

some of us are not the skirt type (i'm not, for example), so instead of a lehnga choli we might wear a sharara choli. the sharara are long, wide pants. they are sometimes tight fitting to the knee and then there is a sort of "skirt" to each trouser leg, sometimes they get more gradually wider.

to all of these clothes you would wear a type of matching shawl or scarf known as a dupatta.

You're right about Scotland but bowlers and straw hats simply don't exist these days except in the BBC costume dept. I suppose we still have die hard morris dancers but I couldn't tell you what their outfits are called.

Quite an assortment here! This/these will help a lot!
Thank you everybody!

Korean traditional cloeths

Hanbok: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbok

Mom wore such outfits quite often during Korean association parties that I've often attended in my youth (a few times as an adult too but never wore traditional cloething; lol).



Gat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gat_(hat)

Dad wore one of these during a wedding picture setting; saw it and laughed my head off at the time not knowing about the Korean tradition of course.

erisian: oh, don't be so shy! tell everyone about your morris dancing - and i can post pictures of you in your bellpads, baldric, rosettes, tatter-coat and the rest.
lylejk: those hanbok costumes look really stylish!

There must be something that is unique to The British Isles

The same here. I don't know of anything unique about Canadian clothing, nothing too exciting, except we follow all the up to date trends.

There's nothing I know of. I think English culture has so infiltrated the rest of the world that nothing unique remains. AnMal can bring me gifts that are very Swedish and totally new to me but whenever I mention something English, they already have it in Sweden. Sorry but we've got nothing more to offer.