Editing Culture of Australia (section)

==Clothing and apparel==
[[File:Elderly swagman.jpg|thumb|left|140px|A [[swagman]] in bushman's apparel, wearing a brimmed hat and carrying swag and billy can]]

Australia has no official designated [[national dress]], but iconic local styles include ''bushwear'' and ''surfwear''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/fashion/nationaldress/ |title=Australian national dress – Australia's Culture Portal |publisher=Cultureandrecreation.gov.au |access-date=29 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217025028/http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/fashion/nationaldress/ |archive-date=17 February 2011}}</ref> The country's best-known fashion event is [[Australian Fashion Week]], a twice yearly industry gathering showcasing seasonal collections from Australian and Asia Pacific Designers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/fashion/aussie-fashion-hits-new-york/2006/08/27/1156617212361.html |title=Aussie fashion hits New York – Fashion – Entertainment |newspaper=smh.com.au |date= 28 August 2006|access-date=29 January 2011}}</ref> Top Australian models include [[Elle Macpherson]], [[Miranda Kerr]] and [[Jennifer Hawkins]] ([[Miss Universe 2004]]).

Major clothing brands associated with bushwear are the broad brimmed [[Akubra]] hats, [[Driza-Bone]] coats and [[RM Williams (company)|RM Williams]] bushmen's outfitters (featuring in particular: [[moleskin]] trousers, [[riding boots]] and [[merino]] woolwear). [[Blundstone Footwear]] and [[Country Road (retailer)|Country Road]] are also linked to this tradition. Made from the leaves of ''[[Livistona australis]]'', the [[cabbage tree hat]] was the first uniquely Australian headwear, dating back to the early 1800s, and was the hat of choice for colonial-born Australians.<ref>Barnard, Edwin. ''Emporium: Selling the Dream in Colonial Australia'' (2015). [[National Library of Australia]], p. 59. {{ISBN|9780642278685}}.</ref> Traditionally worn by [[Jackaroo (trainee)|jackaroos]] and [[swagman|swagmen]] in the [[blow-fly]] infested Australian outback, the [[cork hat]] is a type of headgear strongly associated with Australia, and comprises [[Cork (material)|cork]] strung from the brim, to ward off insects.<ref>[http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/comedy/ Australian comedy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921041746/http://cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/comedy/ |date=21 September 2010 }}, Australian Government culture and recreation portal. Retrieved 17 February 2007.</ref>

World-famous Australian surfwear labels include [[Billabong (clothing)|Billabong]], [[Rip Curl]], [[Mambo Graphics|Mambo]] and [[Quiksilver]]. Australian surfers popularised the [[ugg boot]], a unisex sheepskin boot with fleece on the inside, a tanned outer surface and a synthetic sole. Worn by the working classes in Australia, the boot style emerged as a global fashion trend in the 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|author=Alyssa Abkowitz, reporter |url=https://money.cnn.com/2009/08/18/pf/deckers_uggs_boots.fortune/index.htm |title=Investor Daily: Deckers finds its footing with Uggs – Aug.&nbsp;19, 2009 |publisher=Money.cnn.com |date=19 August 2009 |access-date=29 January 2011}}</ref> Underwear and sleepwear brands include [[Bonds (clothing)|Bonds]], [[Berlei]], [[Bras N Things]] and [[Peter Alexander Sleepwear]].

The [[slouch hat]] was first worn by military forces in Australia in 1885, looped up on one side so that rifles could be held at the slope without damaging the brim. After federation, the slouch hat became standard Australian Army headgear in 1903 and since then it has developed into an important national symbol and is worn on ceremonial occasions by the Australian army.<ref>Dennis, Peter, Grey, Jeffrey, Morris, Ewan, Prior, Robin. (eds). (2008). ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History''. Second Edition. Oxford University Press: Melbourne. {{ISBN|978-0-19-551784-2}}</ref>
[[File:Australia national rugby union team (Wallabies).jpg|thumb|200px|A group of Australian men wearing speedos]]
Australians generally have a relaxed attitude to what beachgoers wear, although this has not always been the case. At the start of the twentieth century a proposed ordinance in Sydney would have forced men to wear skirts over their "bathing costume" to be decent. This led to the [[1907 Sydney bathing costume protests]] which resulted in the proposal being dropped.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14902614 |title=Skirts and Surf |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |location=NSW |date=15 October 1907 |access-date=18 May 2012 |page=4 }}</ref> In 1961, [[Bondi Beach|Bondi]] inspector Aub Laidlaw, already known for kicking women off the beach for wearing [[bikini]]s, arrested several men wearing [[Swim Briefs|swim briefs]] charging them with indecency.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/topless-wars-reignited-on-australias-beaches-1218251.html|title=Topless wars reignited on Australia's beaches|last=Marks |first=Kathy |date=31 December 2008|access-date=14 September 2009 | location=London | work=The Independent}}</ref> The judge found the men not guilty because no pubic hair was exposed.<ref name="NZ_Herald_9004886">{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=9004886 |title=To be brief – no thanks! |date=29 December 2004 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=15 November 2011}}</ref> As time went on Australians' attitudes to swimwear became much more relaxed. Over time swim briefs, better known locally as [[speedos]] after the Australian brand, became an iconic swimwear for males.