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  Shan baun-bi (Intha)

 

Myanmar

Shan baun-bi or Shan baung-bi, i.e. ‘Shan trousers’, are long baggy trousers, usually lightweight and very spacious, that are usually worn wrapped around the waist and folded over to keep them in place, as by these boys of the Intha ethnic group.