Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "national dress".
Along the way they saw groups of young people in national dress, the boys in lederhosen and feathered loden hats, the girls in dirndls, who waved and called greetings as the two big motor cars sped past.
The ladies from the central African republics were in national dress, a marvelous cacophony of colour like a hatching of forest butterflies, and their men carried elaborately carved walking-sticks or fly-whisks made from animal tails, and the Muslims amongst them wore embroidered pill-box fetes with the tassels denoting that they were hadji who I-ad made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
A multitude of faces, flags, and national dress was reflected off the long arcing mahogany tables and the mirrored walls.
He wore a brilliant blue robe that, even if it was part of the national dress of Indizal, looked like a maternity gown.
I afterwards found out that this was the national dress, and regulated by an iron custom, though of course subject to variations.
He was disfigured a little by a scarlet stain on his neck, somewhat in shape resembling a bunch of grapes, and which our national dress would not permit him to conceal.
He wondered if it was the national dress of some planet he didn't know about.