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Encyclopedia > Draped garment

A draped garment is a garment that is made of unstitched cloth that is held to the body by means of pins, fibulae, or clasps, sashes or belts, tying, or friction and gravity alone. Many draped garments are one-piece garments. (See also List of types of clothing and Clothing terminology) Humans nearly universally wear articles of clothing (also known as dress, garments, attire, or apparel) on the body. ... A variety of fabric. ... Pin is a word with multiple meanings: Look up Pin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together. ... A belt is a flexible band, made of either leather or a type of cloth, worn around the waist, generally serving the purpose of supporting clothing items that would otherwise become too loose, particularly trousers. ... Belt can refer to the following objects: Look up belt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A one-piece garment is a garment that forms a complete outfit in one piece. ...


Examples of draped garments:

See also: The kilt is seen as an item of traditional Scottish Highland dress, although the origin of that tradition is more recent than is commonly believed. ... The Grant Piper by Richard Waitt, 1714. ... A loincloth is one-piece garment, sometimes kept in place by a belt, that is used: in societies where there is no more advanced clothing as an undergarment to express soberness Mohandas Gandhi wore a dhoti, a Hindu loincloth, as a way of identifying with the poorest Indians, even though... Roman clad in toga The toga was the distinctive garb of Ancient Rome. ... The stola was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga that was worn by men. ... This article is about the garment worn by Indian, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi women. ... A village chief in Thailand relaxes in the early evening. ...

A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light. ...

External links

  • Institute of Draped Clothes

  Results from FactBites:
 
MSN Encarta - Search View - Clothing (6222 words)
In hot climates, the traditional dress for males and females is loose-fitting draped garments resembling the loincloth or kilt.
The houppelande, an outer garment with a long, full body and wide, flaring sleeves, was worn until the end of the century and survived into the 1400s and 1500s in the dress of the professional classes and older men.
Traditional clothing in Africa falls generally into the draped rather than the fitted tradition, as might be expected from the African climate, and it varies from the loincloth to the elaborately patterned and draped robe.
Skirt - definition of Skirt in Encyclopedia (429 words)
At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of material, but most skirts are tailored, with gores, pleats, or panels, of light to mid-weight fabrics, such as denim, jersey, worsted, or poplin.
A dress or frock is a garment consisting of a skirt with a bodice attached.
Skirts or dresses are the garments of choice for many women in formal situations, such as weddings and geopolitical summits.
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