Maya clerics and other dignitaries wore elaborate outfits with jewellery.
La Mojarra Stela 1, for example, shows a ruler in an elaborate outfit and headdress.
More often, though, he uses simple devices to heighten the dramatic suggestions of the elaborate outfits.
She appears as a young girl wearing an elaborate white outfit and wolf-like mask.
Slide show of a wedding held on the island in 1957 - notice the traditional and elaborate outfits (particularly worn by women)
Commonly people arrived at the club in fancy dress or elaborate outfits making them immediately appear dramatically different from other people attending more mainstream nightclubs.
"You look much better, brother," Eldest said, eyeing his elaborate outfit.
The pranger was constructed in 1535 financed by fines extracted from workers who wore too elaborate outfits.
It wasn't a very elaborate outfit.
"It's authentic and real, which has made us begin to doubt whether or not this elaborate outfit was indeed made for the theater," she said.