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Myanmar Royal Costumes in the Yadanabon Period: Focus on the Kings’ Ceremonial Costumes Win Pa Pa Lwin The garments normally worn by the kings and their family members under monarchical regime were known as royal costumes. As the kings were the absolute monarchs, the royal ceremonial costumes were the national costumes by portraying the powerful and autocratic characters to the wearers. Moreover, those royal costumes also took part in the forms of kings’ legitimization and propaganda. It also reflected the successive developments of clothing traditions and cultural visuals of the respective periods and nations. In Myanmar, the Yadanabon period (1853-1885 CE) was the last monarchical regime. The royal practices ended and disappeared after the British colonized the whole country. Although royal practices have ceased, some royal costumes of the last monarchical regime are still surviving and serving as the national sources of pride for the descendants. Royal costumes are worthy to be studied because the surviving royal costumes are not certain to be the same like the present conditions due to the fabrics’ low resistances to deterioration factors under archaeological content. Therefore, in this paper, the roles and successive adaptations of kings’ ceremonial costumes in the Yadanabon period, are studied in spatial approach, focusing on the purapuik manuscripts and surviving material remains. 2023-01-01 https://meral.edu.mm/records/9018