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Clothing Through the Ages and Around the World: Answers

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What goes around, comes around. These ancient clothing styles hang around, change forms, get worn by the 'opposite' sex, turn up on fashion runways, and get re-purposed as Hallowe'en costumes. We're versatile, we humans. After all, we're the only species that wears clothes.

Or needs to.

Here are the items with their names and provenances:

Item Item
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Name: kimonName: dhoti
Provenance: JapanProvenance: India
Item Item
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Name: kiltName: pyjamas
Provenance: ScotlandProvenance: Persia
Item Item
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Name: caftanName: buckskin shirt
Provenance: ottoman EmpireProvenance: North American woodlands
Item Item
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Name: grass skirtName: toga
Provenance: PolynesiaProvenance: Rome
Item Item
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Name: LederhosenName: tunic
Provenance: AlpsProvenance: Greece, Balkans
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