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  2. Clothing terminology - Wikipedia

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    The Bloomer Costume was a type of women's clothing introduced in the Antebellum period, that changed the style from dresses to a more male-type style, which was devised by Amelia Bloomer. The Wellington boot was a cavalry boot devised by the Duke of Wellington, originally made from leather, but now normally rubber.

  3. Bufferbloat - Wikipedia

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    Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too many data packets. Bufferbloat can also cause packet delay variation (also known as jitter), as well as reduce the overall network throughput .

  4. Capote (garment) - Wikipedia

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    The River Road by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1855 (Three habitants wearing capotes). A capote (French:) or capot (French:) is a long wrap-style wool coat with a hood.. From the early days of the North American fur trade, both indigenous peoples and European Canadian settlers fashioned wool blankets into "capotes" as a means of coping with harsh winters. [1]

  5. Lavalava - Wikipedia

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    The lavalava is secured around the waist by an overhand knotting of the upper corners of the cloth; women often tuck the loose ends into the waistband, while men usually allow them to hang in front. Women generally wear ankle-length lavalava while men's wraps often extend to the knee or mid-calf depending on the activity or occasion.

  6. Wrapper (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    Buba is a Yoruba word that means the upper clothing. For women, the buba is worn with the iro (wrapper) and gele (head tie). For men, it is worn with sokoto (trousers) and fila (hat). The buba, sokoto/iro and fila/gele set is the traditional costume of the Yoruba people in South Western Nigeria and the other regions of Yorubaland.

  7. Muumuu - Wikipedia

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    The muumuu was made of lightweight solid white cotton fabric and, in addition to being an undergarment, served Hawaiian women as a housedress, nightgown, and swimsuit. [4] Holokū was the original name for the Mother Hubbard dress introduced by Protestant missionaries to Hawaii in the 1820s.

  8. Mundu - Wikipedia

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    The melmundu is an upper garment similar to the nēriyatu or tunḍŭ. that is worn by women; 'mundu' and 'melmundu' are part of the traditional Malayali costume worn by men. Despite the considerable influence of western dressing forms in South Indian culture, Hindu traditional ceremonies of Kerala (some Hindu castes in other south Indian ...

  9. Crop top - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the clothing are unknown, but midriff tops go back to at least the Bronze Age, demonstrated by the discovery of Egtved Girl in Denmark.. The early history of the modern form of crop top intersects with cultural views towards the midriff, starting with the performance of Little Egypt at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. [2]