Experiments in Communication

I don't remember why, but I was thinking about pleats. A part of the Greek national costume, the "foustanela", is a skirt that consists of 400 pleats, one for each year that Greece was under Turkish occupation. This is an interesting example of clothing being used to "reveal"/bear evidence of a negative part of Greek history, like a scar that externalizes and reminds the wearer of bad times that have passed.

I wonder if there are other such symbolisms in national costumes (I'm sure there must be something, but I am wondering what, and if there are other cases in which there is representation of an event, something with a temporal quality).