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The wide cloth belt that people wear around the waist to hold a robe or a kimono together is called sash or obi in Japanese. There are types of sashes like the decorative ones that pass diagonally from shoulder to the opposite hip.

The sash is used crossed the world but in every country the sash has a different meaning depending on each country tradition. For example, when we talk about the military and official use of a sash first we refer to the royal families that often wear sashes. The most popular in wearing them are the European Royal families because they are referred to as part of their regalia. The Legion of Honor is also very fond of sashes. In Italy and France, the public authorities and local officials usually wore sashes printed with their national flag colors on their right shoulder. In countries like Latin America and Africa there is a particular sash that suggests the presidents authority. The modern French Armys sashes have two colors: red and dark blue and they are a particularity of their parades. Sashes are also used for ceremonial attire in India and Pakistan.

Modern civilian and cultural use is another side of the sash usage. There are countries like the United States where a sash doesnt have a very practical purpose its purpose is ceremonial in most of the situations. Events like convocation ceremonies and high school beauty contests are proper occasions to wear a sash. In Canada, fur trades used sashes that had a length of around four meters. Sashes are fabricated using colored thread. In most of the countries sashes symbolize different things; in Northern Ireland they symbolize the Orange Order.

Women had different ways of wearing a sash, depending on their tradition. The Clan Women chose to wear it on the right shoulder, over the breast and secured with a pin on the right shoulder again. There wasnt any difference in the wrapping method of the cloth in the case of the Wives of Clan Chief, Wives of Colonels of Scottish Regiments and the others mentioned above, the only difference was the shoulder.

In our times you, can see white gowns with tartan sashes in the entire world but mostly you can see them in the Scottish Highland Balls and Dances.

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