native dress
Indigenous cultural clothing
Native dress is the traditional clothing characteristic of a particular culture, region, or ethnic group: The dancers performed in native dress.
The phrase often appears in contexts of cultural display or tourism, describing garments worn to represent heritage rather than everyday wear.
It can carry romantic or colonial overtones, implying something picturesque or pre-modern.
- traditional garmentsClothing from cultural heritage
- dashikiOrnate West African pullover
- kimonoWraparound Japanese garment
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- sariWrapped South Asian dress
cheongsam · fabric · hanbok · ethnicity · ethnic pride · weaving · textile arts · tracht · poncho · ritual · feast day · coming of age · modernization · beadwork · tradition · embroidery · dirndl · antiquity
- cultural heritagefolklore, traditions, customs, folk music revival, museum collections
- traditional culturestradition, customs, heritage, oral traditions, ancestral practices
- traditionstradition, custom, customs, cultural practices, rituals
- world culturesholidays, flags, world music, traditional clothing, ethnic food
- traditional clothingkimono, sari, hanbok, dashiki, kilt
- local pridehometown pride, civic pride, regional pride, community roots, state pride
native dresscontemporary fashion
Present-day clothing trends
uniform · casual wear · street clothes · streetwear · business attire
native, dress, natives, natively, nativity, nation, national, nationally, nationalism