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This is the costume, not of "power," as people woozily say, nor of rigid conformity and unimaginative conservatism, but of classic and flexible modernity.
It seems that the bohemian spirit has gone beyond the old war against palatable daylight hypocrisy waged in the costume of stark dark truth.
Pants were an old story, and they were no longer strictly male; but the 1960s short-tunic-and-tights costume, especially when worn with high boots, cropped hair, and a hip-level belt, seemed to put girls into the clothes of Renaissance youths, so they looked like Carpaccio dandies or Ghirlandaio toughs.
The costume more easily adapted to Western tastes than the sari, perhaps because it involves trousers, is a long tunic worn over baggy pantaloons with a soft stole around the shoulders; known as salwar kameez, it is most popular in the northwest, and very elegant.
The event is commemorated in July by the Loyalists Days festival, with processions along the harbor and dancing in the streets, all performed in the 18th-century costume.