Employment in the urban garment factories is no longer a viable alternative for the rural population.
And in nineteenth-century anthropological studies of the region, one runs into the obligatory chapters describing the function and materials of the islanders' garments.
It was observed that she was tearful when she was asked to take off her lower garments.
Near the beginning of the act, members of the chorus let their very heavy garments drop.
Men, who live in certain areas, make upper garments by joining leaves together.
Widely circulating stories of covered young women wearing tight jeans beneath their modest outer garments is perhaps the most common version of this juxtaposition.
And, as with male fashions, women's wear included a growing range of more casual garments which furthered the visual conflation of high and low fashions.
The designers follow each other, trying to predict trends and create similar but distinctive garments, and paying little attention to the consumers.
