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Your question is far too general and takes no account of different clothing worn in many parts of the Americas.

Taking the Aztec people as just one example, these native Americans made most of their clothing from cotton or cactus (ixtle or maguey) fibres.

Men commonly wore a loincloth (maxtle) tied in a knot at the front, sometimes with an added cloak called a tilmatli. Women wore a simple long skirt (quechquemitl) and a blouse (huipil) with or without sleeves. More wealthy people, priests and the military wore specific garments according to their status; most people wore sandals called cactli.

Clearly these clothes (and their names) have no connection at all with clothing worn by the Ingalik people of Alaska or the Bororo of Brazil or the Powhatan people of Virginia; each tribe wore different clothing according to the climate and the resources available locally and had their own names for the different garments.

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