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This category describes traditional and historic Australian Aboriginal clothing. Modern Australian clothing should be categorised under Australian fashion or Clothing companies of Australia Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal clothing"
This category describes traditional and historic Australian clothing. Modern Australian clothing should be categorised under Australian fashion or Clothing companies of Australia Subcategories
Aboriginal men in Victoria with war implements (c. 1883) by Fred Kruger A group of Aboriginal men in possum skin cloaks and blankets in 1858 at Penshurst in Victoria. In the 1800s Governor Lachlan Macquarie, after inspecting the recently forged road across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, wrote about meeting some members of the Wiradjuri at the Bathurst camp:
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the men wore pearl shells as a pubic covering, which they call Riji, [2] and which are considered extremely sacred. The string could be dyed various shades using dyes such as ochre. Some string was only worn for ceremony, such as skirts worn by the women.
If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress. Traditional clothing often has two forms: everyday wear, and formal wear. The word "costume" in this context is sometimes considered pejorative, as the word has more than one meaning, and thus "clothing", "dress", "attire" or "regalia" can be ...
Australian fashion designers (2 C, 89 P) Australian models (11 C, 1 P) C. Clothing brands of Australia (76 P) Clothing companies of Australia (4 C, 11 P) E.