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About British traditional dress culture

In Britain, the national costume is very characteristic. First of all, the hat, the most prominent of which is the British gentleman's round-topped hard hat - "Bowler hat" (bowler*hat), which is a kind of hard tire round-top tweed hat, usually black. Traditionally, British dignitaries, celebrities are to wear this bowler hat, literary works, a mention of B.H, readers can immediately associate with a British gentleman. Now in the streets of major cities, this bonnet has been rare, but not disappeared. Next is the Scottish "kilt" (kilt), which is a short skirt made of lattice tweed from the waist to the knee, which was formed in the Middle Ages, and is a skirt for men only. It is no longer worn by men in Scotland today in their daily lives, but it is revived by men for traditional holiday occasions. Again, there are the various traditional work clothes and costumes of the British, including the black robes and wigs worn by judges during court sessions, the robes worn by ministers during church services, the long white dresses and crowns worn by the Queen when Parliament is in session (during which the "judicial aristocrats" sitting in the front rows wear black robes and wigs, and the "religious aristocrats" wear black robes and wigs, and the "religious aristocrats" wear black robes and wigs. "Religious aristocrats" with a lapel red robe), and the palace guards wore brightly colored short coat, yellow girdle, high black leather cap, the Tower of London guards of the black cap, black coat, close to the knight's black coat, white breeches, black boots and so on.