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Male clothes
As for men's costumes, they can be divided into two categories:
daily and festive. In each of them the reasons that have
determined or influenced them are reflected.
The men's suit also refers to that typical of the nineteenth-
century people and consists of: a white cotton shirt; ribbed
waistcoat in black velvet with black buttons and a small buckle on
the back; from a red handkerchief placed on the neck or on the
head, if used during the grape harvest or the wheat harvest, to
ensure that all the sweat is kept and dried by it; and finally from
the trousers always ribbed in black velvet, called Sicilian "causi"
long up to the knees with openings on the sides and narrow by a
button, without opening in front but on the sides, which is then
combined with a wool band at the waist red or yellow color that
acts as a 'panzera'.