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 * Madras (costume)
 * Quadrille dress
 * Madras (cloth)

Madras in the Caribbean
Madras features in the traditional address of a number of Caribbean countries, the is mostly associated with headties worn but women but it is also to make dresses and blouses.

Madras in Jamaica
The fabric was copied by British manufacturers and mass-produced for the colonial market. The cloth was affordable and was so popular with women from from the markets and labouring classes that it became part to of their daily dress. It was avaliable both by the yard and in square pieces, perfect for a headtie, sold in the urban markets. It was popular with women of African descent and from the communities of indentured indian labourers.

During enslavement headties worn by women in Jamaica were often varied in style after emancipation Jamaica the madras headtie is commonly called a bandanna. The madras headtie was made by created a triangle, by folding a square Madras cloth stiffened with a starch made from cassava juice, then knotting it at the back if the head. The tails of the knotted of the fabric would be shaped suggesting the shape of a roosters's tail. This style was known as the"peacock" or "cock's tail".

- made popular by Miss Lou

- worn as national dress