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2. Thawb - Wikipedia

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   Paintings in Egypt from the Mamluk period show women either fully or partially covered in this robe. During this time, the thawb also became shorter due to a fashion trend for higher hemlines and elbow-length sleeves. By the late 1800s, Palestinian women adopted a thawb with foreign patterns and floral designs. [8]

3. Dressing gown - Wikipedia

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   The regular wearing of a dressing gown by men about the house is derived from the 18th-century wearing of the banyan in orientalist imitation. [1] The gowns were frequently made out of fabrics such as printed cotton, silk damask, or velvet and were mainly worn by upper class men. [2]

4. Union suit - Wikipedia

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   The union suit makes an appearance in Louisa May Alcott's 1875 book Eight Cousins, as a preferred alternative to corsetry under the name 'Liberty Suit' . In Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon, private-eye Sam Spade "put(s) on a thin white union-suit".

5. Kaftan - Wikipedia

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   A Senegalese kaftan is a pullover men's robe with long bell-like sleeves. In the Wolof language, this robe is called a mbubb and in French, it is called a boubou. The Senegalese kaftan is an ankle-length garment, and is worn with matching drawstring pants called tubay. Usually made of cotton brocade, lace, or synthetic fabrics, these robes are ...

6. Morning dress - Wikipedia

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   Morning dress consists of: a morning coat (the morning cut of tailcoat), now always single breasted with link closure (as on some dinner jackets) or one button (or very rarely two) and with pointed lapels, may include silk piping on the edges of the coat and lapels (and cuffs on older models with turnup coat sleeves).

7. White tie - Wikipedia

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   White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. [1] For men, it consists of a black tail coat (alternatively referred to as a dress coat, usually by tailors) worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piqué bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar.