Bruneians
wear traditional Malay costumes. Men wear baju Melayu. Brunei women dress
in brightly coloured apparels. The dresses usually cover their body from head
to toe. They wear a head scarf in public places and in government offices
The traditional Cambodian sampot is a woman's long skirt with
a fold or pleat in the front, but some sampot styles actually look more like
trousers. It is worn with a modest shirt or blouse. On special occasions women
match the color of their sampot to the traditional color for that day. Cambodian men typically wear cotton or silk
shirts with short or long sleeves. They wear cotton trousers as well.
A Kebaya is a traditional blouse-dress
combination worn by women in Indonesia. It is sometimes made from sheer
material and usually worn with a sarong or batik. Indonesian men generally wear sarongs
(usually with a checkered pattern) in the home. In public, the sarong is worn
only when attending Friday prayers at the mosque. For formal national
occasions, the men wear batik shirts with trousers or teluk beskap, a
combination of the Javanese jacket and sarong.
Lao women wear the silk skirts, blouses and
scarves to attend important ceremonies. Lao men wear salong, big large pants or
the peasant pants.
Baju Melayu is a traditional Malay outfit for men. The Muslim males
in Malaysia wear the traditional dress, baju Melayu, during festivals and
wedding gatherings.They will usually wear accompanying accessories like the
songkok(black hat) and samping(extra piece of sarong wrapped around the waist). 
The longyi is the Myanmar national dress worn by men as well
as women. It is basically a piece of cloth sown into a cylindrical tube,
slipped over the head by men and stepped into by the women and tucked in at the
waist. Men and women however fasten their longyis at the waist in different
ways. Men fold the garment into two panels and knot it neatly at waist level.
The barong
Tagalog (or simply barong) is an
embroidered formal garment of the Philippines. In Filipino culture it is a
common wedding and formal attire, mostly for men but also for women. The balintawakis the traditional
Filipino costume for women.The costume typically features a white or
cream-coloured blouse with puffy-butterfly short sleeves.
Singapore does
not really have its own national costume because there are 4 different main
races which are the Chinese, Malay, Indian and the Eurasians. Each race has
their own costumes.
The women's national costume is named the Chakri. It is made
up of Thai silk. The dress includes a back-less and shoulder-less shirt, a
ready-to-wear skirt with Na-nang ( a typical Thai cutting style on a center of
a skirt), and a shawl which is made by organdy.The men's national costume is
known as sue phraratchatan (royally bestowed shirt).
The most popular and widely-recognized Vietnamese national
costume is the Áo dài, which is worn nowadays mostly by women, although men do
wear Áo dài on special occasions such as weddings and funerals. Áo dài is
similar to the Chinese Qipao, consisting of a long gown with a slit on both
sides, worn over silk pants.