Figure 1.--Here we see a colorized magic latern slide showing Burmese children in their coloful best outfits described as 'festive dress'. |
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We do not yet much information on Burmese garments. We note some beautiful, destinctive traditional garments at the turn of the 20th century. Burma seems to be a country where traditional garments continue to be worn to some extent. We are not entirely suyre why this is. Burmese nationalism may be a factor along with the country's economic failure. We see traditional garments at school, but this is probably because of required uniforms. We can not yet assess garments to any extent because our Burma archive is so limited. In many countries where traditional garments are still worn, we commonly see children wearing western grments because of their practicality. Some of the small mumber of images we have archived show adulkts wearing traditional garments, but many children wearing western garments. And this includes men. In several Asian countries we see women contunuing tio wear traditional garments while many men wear western garments. This does not seem to be the case in Burma.
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