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There are two types of hakama, divided umanori (馬乗り, “horse-riding hakama”) and undivided andon hakama (行灯袴, “lantern hakama”). The umanori type has wide and divided legs, related to culottes. In the 1980s in Puerto Rico, Ana Irma Rivera Lassén was not allowed to enter court in trousers and was told to wear a skirt. Skirts are nonetheless worn by males and girls from many cultures, such as the lungi, lehnga, kanga and sarong worn in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and the kilt worn in Scotland and Ireland. He wanted to see women’s legs once more, and pestered Halston regularly...