Their competition has also grown, with department stores and costume shops selling traditional clothes.

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The craft both produces an important component of traditional clothes and is itself testimony to a living cultural tradition.

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In his buttoned-down shirt and tie, with a tense look on his face, he sits in a line of musicians, all looking joyful, all dressed in traditional African clothes or T-shirts and jeans.

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They digitally clone themselves to create a picture where two or more sets of twins dressed in designer clothes, traditional Muslims garb or military uniforms act out contradictory and stereotypical behaviours.

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He was less excited about spending four hours in downtown Denver with an assortment of street clothes for more-traditional portraits.

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It is also a time for the community to light candles, dress in their best clothes, invite friends for parties and eat traditional foods, including Indian sweets such as barfi, a milk-based candy, and ghoogra, a pastry made of cereal and sugar.

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He also wore Western clothes (another first) but made a gesture to national custom by donning a traditional Nepali cap.

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For starters, the Indian government never embarked on an official program to mandate Western clothes in the workplace as the Japanese Emperor Meiji did in the early 1900s, triggering a decline in traditional outfits.

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