What is "national costumes"

Usage examples of "national costumes".

They made a colorful cross-section, many of them wearing the old traditional national costumes that had lain in trunks for generationsembroidered dirndls, elaborate peasant blouses, Balkan tunics, sarongs, chesterfields, tam-o'-shanters, gray flannels, and regimental ties.

Gathered around a long table were twenty or so men, some of whom he had seen before, all of them dressed in one of the strange national costumes of the past-worshipping people of Earth.

Now, Kemal Ataturk had made it against the law to wear Turkish national costumes and had forced the whole country into Western dress.

Russian furs and grain and timber, Finnish glassware, ingots of Norwegian aluminum heaped about jade Buddhas and katanas and kimonos, Flemish lace like piles of snow-froth, silk tapestries of Lyon, paintings and sculptures, machine tools, crates of priceless vintages, sturdy workers and picked wenches in national costumes or nudity emphasized by silver manacles.

They wore their national costumes, but since by and large their national costumes were what the average peasant wore they looked slightly out of place in them.

The tables were being served by young girls in Russian national costumes.

It was somewhat Oriental, as its uniforms and national costumes were.

Now he looked down on the clapping throng, on the swirling colours of the women's national costumes, and he found at last a focus for his irritation and frustration.

The national costumes of Starfleet's guests, along with the rainbow hues of their skin--and fur, and scales, and feathers, and what-have- you--were an explosion of color.