21.   Young girls in national costume presented the Westerners with flowers before their departure.

22.   In the most moving part of the ceremony John Paul gave his blessing to a dozen little children dressed in national costume and carrying golden chalices.

23.   Always inspired by his national costume, this season he brought a kimono feel to his reworking of Victorian bustled dresses.

24.   There are little girls in the national costumes of the Soviet republics, stalwart workmen and heroic women labourers on collective farms.

25.   Though it is the national costume for men, most Filipinos wear it on only three occasions -- baptisms, weddings and funerals.

26.   Izquierdo, the second runner-up, won the prize for the best national costume, which included huge red and black feathers.

27.   Korean fashion consists in copies of clothes ripped off from American designers or traditional national costume, she says.