11.   Like all traditional costumes, they originated from everyday dress -- stylized versions of garments worn by the samurai class and nobility at court.

12.   The children, dressed in traditional Romanian costumes, painted cardboard stars and sang Christmas carols in Romanian and English.

13.   The director also employs his camera in a kinetic way that creates excitement missing in traditional costume epics.

14.   The pope did not flinch when a shepherd in traditional Caucasian costume kneeled and placed a lamb on the floor before communion.

15.   The svelte singer, who often wears the traditional embroidered costume known as a charro, knows how to play all of them.

16.   The village elders, dressed in traditional costume, stood as a welcoming party on the dock.

17.   The straw hat ringed with dangling colored ribbons that is also part of his traditional costume sat on the desk in municipal hall that he had taken as his.

18.   They wear the traditional brocaded costumes and maintain the rigid posture of the ancient form.

19.   They were dressed in traditional Alsatian costume.

20.   They, and other traditional costumes such as witches, devils and demons, have some major competition.