But where Miller saw "golf pants" on a pair of loose baggy trousers paired with a burned out velvet-and-georgette blouse, the audience might have seen glorified sweats.

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Many of them sport lungis, a sarong-like cloth wrapped around the waist, instead of kurta-pyjamas, a collarless knee-length shirt worn with loose-fitting trousers.

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Last year, a senior Haryana government official objected to women employees coming to the office attired in anything except salwar kameez (loose tunic and trousers) or a sari.

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While the stage features children twirling in vibrantly coloured skirts and adolescent boys performing gallant folk dances in traditional boots and bombachas (loose-fitting gaucho-style trousers), the most exciting spectacle of the day is the sortija.

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At first, recalls Mrs Sethi, the girls would not take off their chunnis (loose scarves worn over their salwar kameez, or tunic and trousers, to hide the line of the body) when they played.

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