Madras (cloth)
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Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its na
Samples of cloth showing many typical Madras patterns
A young Martinican woman in Madras. By Paul Gauguin, 1887.
Martinican carnival costumes using madras fabrics.
Madras bags of spices in a Saint-Antoine market in Guadeloupe.
Lungi
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The lungi is a clothing similar to the sarong that originated in the Indian subcontinent. The lungi, which usually multicoloured, is a men's skirt usually tied around the lower waist below the navel.
Madras (cloth)
…Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in India. Authentic Madras comes from Chennai (Madras) in…
A boy in a village of Narail, Bangladesh wearing a lungi with simple twist knot
The border of a Bangladeshi lungi, showing the black & white reinforced weave border to minimize fraying
A Boatman in Bangladesh wearing a lungi in Ratargul Swamp Forest, Sylhet
Photo of lungi of Bangladesh. Its conventional measurement is 5 Hath (90") × 2.75 Hath (49.50"). Only one side is shown in the picture.