Sampot
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A sampot, is a traditional dress in Cambodia.
500-600s AD Khmer Balarama wearing sampot chong kben, from Phnom Da, National Musieum of Cambodia.
Devata in patterned sampot. Historian Gillian Green suggests a chong kben undergarment can explain the pieces of fabric emerging from the waist and cascading down the sampot. Angkor Wat (12th century).
The George Groslier's original work describes: "The sampot is the Siamese national costume, long adopted by the Cambodians. It is a rectangular piece of fabric, rolled around the waist and tucked from the front to the back between the legs."
Khmer girls in dance practice outfit: aww nay (or av nay) with a sampot chong kben, 1906.
Sampot chang samluy
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Sampot chang samluy is a draped skirt-style garment wrapped around the lower body and secured at the waist.
Sampot
…Culture of Cambodia Sompot Samloy Gillian Green (2003). Traditional textiles of Cambodia. Bangkok: River Books. ISBN 974-8225-39-9…
Khmer female deity wearing sampot chang samluy featuring pleats and folds in front with bunched cloth draped over a belt. 1000s AD, Guimet Museum
Khmer ballerina in sampot samluy sarabap "ka'at kbal neak" (“folded like the head of naga”), 2000s AD.
Khmer female deity, likely Durga, wearing sampot chang samluy, 675-730 AD.
Bronze of Uma (goddess) wearing elaborately pleated and folded chang samluy, between 1110 and 1160 AD, Angkor Wat.