Sarong
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A sarong or a sarung is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist, worn in Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, and on many Pacific isl
Dutch military personnel wearing sarong, 1949
Three women wearing sarongs in 1905
Sundanese sarong weaver in Bandung, West Java, present-day Indonesia, 1900–1940
Sarung denotes a length of fabric as a garment.
Mundu
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The mundu is a garment worn around the waist in the Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, the Lakshadweep archipelago, and the Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives. It is closely related to sarongs l
Sarong
…Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and much of the Indian subcontinent. (In the Indian subcontinent, excluding Sri Lanka, sarongs are sometimes known as mundu or lungi.) Sarongs known under a variety of local names are traditionally worn by the people of Yemen and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula. Local…
Nasranis or Syrian Christians of Kerala wearing mundu (from an old painting). Photo published in the Cochin Government Royal War Efforts Souvenir in 1938.
Nair woman wearing a mundum neriyatum, painting by Raja Ravi Varma
A man wearing mundu and melmundu