Traditional materials, of which in Ireland was made the national dress, has always beenwool and linen. Men in this country wore warm and rather spacious woolen cloaks over long linen shirts. By the way a traditional Irish cloak has no sleeves, no hood, no cuts to hands. This is a single-cut piece of cloth, which was fixed with a large brooch (fibula). The wealthy people was opened on the bottom a linen shirt to wear another one, but now it\'s short. Such things were also made of linen, but only in this case it was distinguished by a particularly fine dressing. As for the clothes of the crowned persons, it could be sewn even from silk. The upper tunic is often decorated with colorful, very complex embroidered patterns. In addition to embroidery, Irish national clothes could be decorated with braided braid (bottom of the product, sleeves and collar), wedges of colored fabric and contrasting threads (external seams). Earlier in Ireland, there was a special decree on colors, which stated that every Irishman could use to decorate their clothes clearly defined combination and number of colors (this is directly dependent on the type of Irish activity and his position in society). The better-off citizens national costumes were much mnogocwetnye and brighter than the commoner. On the national men\'s Irish costume is largely influenced by nothing but the constant bad weather and strong winds. So the Irish are on top of the shirts or buklirovannye crisp plaid jackets, which are still to hook the sweater or vest. In Ireland, the traditional headdress is a constant cap wedge. In the twentieth century to this costume was added to black heavy coat greatcoat cut and long coats.