loincloth

There were trade watches, clasp knives, amazing assortments of fish-hooks in packages, plug tobacco, matches, and gorgeous strips of cotton for loincloths all around.

The Aorai swung out a boat smartly, into which sprang half a dozen brown-skinned sailors clad only in scarlet loincloths. They took the oars, while in the stern sheets, at the steering sweep, stood a young man garbed in the tropic white that marks the European.

He shall be no naked beast of the jungle, but shall wear a loincloth and copper anklets, and, perchance, a ring in his nose, for he is to be reared by men--a tribe of savage cannibals.

Only short months before this head had been alive, he pondered, quick with wit, attached to a two-legged body that stood erect and that swaggered about, a loincloth and a belted automatic around its middle, more powerful, therefrom, than Bashti, but with less wit, for had not he, Bashti, with an ancient pistol, put darkness inside that skull where wit resided, and removed that skull from the soddenly relaxed framework of flesh and bone on which it had been supported to tread the earth and the deck of the Arangi?

Jac Yarrow, 21, actually wears loincloths to join the list of stars - including Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield - to be the biblical character on stage.

'In global expositions since 1887 and even until today, we have been presented as living in huts, wearing loincloths and dancing in circles,' Almario said.

DPA Bangkok Residents of Bangkok celebrated Thailand's traditional new year on Thursday wearing colourful lace blouses, long skirts and loincloths after a frenzy for costumes was popularised by a well-liked historical TV drama.

In more modern periods, men wore knee-length shirts, loincloths or kilts made of linen, and leather loincloths, according to data published by the Canadian Museum of History website.

In the 16th century, Daniele da Volterra was scorned by contemporary artists for agreeing to paint loincloths on Michelangelo's nudes in the Sistine Chapel.

Thanh, 82, and 41-year-old Lang, who wore loincloths made out of tree bark, were found after a five-hour search.

If the collection is anything to go by, get ready to see men dressed in printed leggings, unstructured overcoats and most surprisingly, loincloths with target marks and warrior portraits printed all over them.