The Japanese equivalent of a sash, obi, serves to hold a kimono or yukata together.
Decorative sashes may pass from the shoulder to the hip rather than around the waist.
Sash worn by Jack Sparrow in The Pirate Caribbean Movie
Inspired from Jack Sparrow costume, there are thousands of shops selling sashes like him.
Pirate style
Sashes traditionally form part of formal military attire (compare the sword-belt known as a baldric, and the cummerbund). Most of the European Royal families wear sashes as a part of their royal (and/or military) regalia. Some Order (decoration)s such as the Légion d'honneur include sashes as part of the seniormost grades' insignia.
In Latin America and some countries of Africa, a special presidential sash indicates a president's authority.
Vicente Fox, President of Mexico 2000-2006
In France and Italy, sashes, featuring the national flag tricolours and worn on the right shoulder, are used by public authorities and local officials; likewise Italian military officers wear plain blue sashes on the right shoulder during ceremonial occasions.
At the time of the American Civil War (1861-65) red sashes were authorised for officers and sergeants of the regular US Army (Army Regulations of 1861). U.S. Generals continued to wear buff silk sashes in full dress until 1917.
In the Confederate Army of the Civil War period sash colour indicated the corps or status of the wearer.
For example:
gold for cavalry
burgundy for infantry
black for chaplains
red for sergeants
green or blue for medics
grey or cream for general officers.
The modern British Army retains a scarlet sash for wear by sergeants in certain orders of dress, over the right shoulder to the hip. A similar burgundy sash is worn around the waist by officers of the Foot Guards in scarlet full dress and officers of line infantry in dark blue "Number 1" dress. The same practice is followed in some Commonwealth armies.
The present day armies of India and Pakistan both make extensive use of waist sashes for ceremonial wear. The colours vary widely according to regiment or branch and match those of the turbans where worn. Typically two or more colours are incorporated in the sash, in vertical stripes. One end hangs loose at the side and may have an ornamental fringe. The practice of wearing distinctive regimental sashes goes back to at least the nineteenth century.
In the United States, the sash has picked up a more ceremonial and less practical purpose. Sashes are used at higher education commencement ceremonies, by high school homecoming parade nominees
Mrs. Texas crowned in beauty contest (2001)
....as well as by corporations to acknowledge high achievement.
In Canada, hand woven sashes (called ceintures fléchées and sometimes "L'Assumption sash" after a town in which they were mass produced) were derived from Iroquoiuan carrying belts sometime in the 18th century. As a powerful multi-use tool this sash found use in the fur trade which brought it into the North West. In this period the weave got tighter and size expanded, with some examples more than four metres in length. Coloured thread was widely used. Today it is considered to be primarily a symbol of the 1837 Lower Canada Rebellion Patriotes and the Métis peoples.
In Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, the sash is a symbol of the Orange Order. Orange Order sashes were originally of the ceremonial shoulder-to-hip variety as worn by the British military. Over the 20th century the sash has been mostly replaced by V-shaped collarettes, which are still generally referred to as sashes.
The item is celebrated in the song 'The Sash my Father Wore'.
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