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Traditional Puerto Rican clothing are usually bright and a bit loose-fitting. They are a mix of Spanish, Carribean,and South American.

Traditional Puerto Rican clothing is divided in three kinds.

First is the Jibaro clothing wore at mountain festivals and celebrations of Jibaro music and culture.

Jibaro men wear the straw hat, white shirt and pants with a colored sash around the waist and colored kerchief around neck and shoulders Sandals and a machete. The women wear flowers in their hair and multi colored long skirts and low cut white blouses.

Second is traditional outfits for Bomba. The women dress in the traditional clothing that the slaves wore. Turbans and long flowing white skirts and short blouses. The men wear colorful shirts tied at the waist and pants cut at the ankles or sometimes the man is dress elegantly in a white suite with a Panama Hat.

Third is the city clothes for Plena. Women wear flowers in their hair colorful short dress above the knee. Men wear Panama hats with guayabera shirts mostly in white.

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