Editing Loincloth (section)

===Philippines===
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[[File:Visayans 1.png|thumb|[[Visayans|Visayan]] noblemen or warriors deliberately wearing only ''[[bahag (garment)|bahág]]'' to show off traditional, full-body tattoos (''[[batok]]''), from the ''[[Boxer Codex]]'', {{circa|1590}}]]

In the Philippines, loincloths of any sort are generally called [[bahag (garment)|''bahág'']]. It is often a single, long, rectangular cloth that is not tied with a belt or string and were made from either [[barkcloth]] or hand-[[woven textile]]s. The design of the weave is often unique to a specific tribe, while colors may denote the wearer’s social rank, such as plain white for commoners.<ref name="Belen">{{cite web |last1=Belen |first1=Yvonne |date=21 June 2014 |title=Loincloth (G-string, Bahag) |url=https://www.icbe.eu/cordillera-articles/675-loincloth-g-string-bahag |access-date=21 July 2021 |website=Grand Cañao}}</ref>

Throughout the [[pre-colonial Philippines|pre-colonial]] period, the ''bahág'' was the normative dress for commoners and the servile class (the ''[[alipin]]'' caste).<ref name="Lopez">{{cite book |last1=Lopez |first1=Mellie Leandicho |title=A Handbook of Philippine Folklore |date=2006 |publisher=UP Press |isbn=9789715425148 |page=385}}</ref> It survives today among some [[indigenous tribes of the Philippines]], most notably the various [[Igorot|Cordilleran]] peoples in the mountains of inland northern [[Luzon]].<ref name="Dalton">{{cite book |last1=Dalton |first1=David |last2=Keeling |first2=Stephen |title=The Rough Guide to the Philippines |date=2013 |publisher=Rough Guides UK |isbn=9781405392075}}</ref>

The ''bahág'' was also favoured by the pre-colonial [[Maginoo|noble]] (''tumao'') and [[Timawa|warrior]] (''timawa'') classes of the [[Visayan people]], as it showed off their elaborate, full-body tattoos (''[[batok]]'') that advertised combat prowess and other significant achievements:<ref name="Scott" /><ref name="Francia">{{cite book |last1=Francia |first1=Luis H. |title=History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos |date=2013 |publisher=Abrams |isbn=978-1-4683-1545-5}}</ref>

{{Blockquote
|text=The principal clothing of the Cebuanos and all the Visayans is the tattooing of which we have already spoken, with which a naked man appears to be dressed in a kind of handsome armor engraved with very fine work, a dress so esteemed by  them they take it for their proudest attire, covering their bodies neither more nor less than a [[Crucifixion of Jesus|Christ crucified]], so that although for solemn occasions they have the ''marlotas'' (robes) we mentioned, their dress at home and in their ''barrio'' is their tattoos and a [[bahag (garment)|''bahag'']], as they call that cloth they wrap around their waist, which is the sort the ancient actors and gladiators used in Rome for decency's sake.
|author=[[Pedro Chirino]] 
|title = ''Relación de las Islas Filipinas'' (1604)
|source=<ref name="Scott">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=William Henry |title=Barangay: Sixteenth-century Philippine Culture and Society |date=1994 |publisher=Ateneo University Press |isbn=9789715501354 |pages=20–27}}</ref>
}}

One method of wrapping the ''bahág'' involves first pulling the long rectangular cloth (usually around {{convert|2|to|3|m|abbr=on}}) in between the legs to cover the genitals, with a longer back flap. This back flap is then twisted across the right leg, then crossed at the waist in an anti-clockwise direction. It then goes under the front flap, then across the left leg. It is twisted back across the back loop, above the buttocks. The result is the two rectangular ends hanging in front of and behind the waist, with a loop around the legs resembling a belt.

The native [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] word for "rainbow", ''bahagharì'', literally means "loincloth of the king".<ref>{{cite news |title=Glossary of Confusing Pinoy Expressions |access-date=21 July 2021 |work=Spot.ph|url= https://www.spot.ph/newsfeatures/54434/glossary-of-pinoy-expressions|date=10 October 2013}}</ref>