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I am from Central Asia and My long and loose jellabiya is practical, keeping me cool and letting me

I am almost 5,000 years old! move around while I work. In what other ways can clothes be useful?

My heavy robe is called
a kaunakes: what do you
think it was made from?

Clothes and Costumes
Clothes and Costumes

Different fashions from across the world can reveal many interesting

clues about everything from a person’s culture to the local climate!

The colour blue was
expensive to produce
in fabrics during the

th
18 century. What do
you think my blue coat
and breeches say I am a Portuguese sailor
about me? who travelled to the

East. My long baggy

trousers are called
bombacha pantaloons.

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