1.   Jan Stafford and Maxine Kincora came in traditional white wedding gowns, lace and veils.

2.   A crowd of Vietnamese women, some dressed in traditional gowns called ao dai, tote cooking utensils, knitwear and sacks of rice back home.

3.   A middle-aged woman in a traditional gown shares sidewalk space with a tattooed teen wearing a Kobe Bryant basketball jersey.

4.   Abubakar, dressed in full military uniform, then embraced Obasanjo, wearing a white agbada, a traditional gown.

5.   Indeed, there is still a strong demand for the traditional grand gown, but many modern gowns are sleek, often bare and sometimes minimal.

6.   Most brides still choose traditional white gowns, though brides frequently are choosing dresses in ivory and shades between white and ivory.

7.   The guide, who was dressed in the traditional long gown with a lace bodice, explained proudly that three years ago Queen Beatrix had chosen to visit Marken.

8.   The small green dot on her forehead, called bindi in Punjabi, is the same color as her traditional ornate gown, called ghagra choi.

9.   A diminutive man, he is as comfortable in Western suits as in the traditional Arab gown, known as dishdasha, and the red checkered headdress.