Women wearing traditional Heian period dress, Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Two people in period dress by the Cathedral, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe

Couple dressed in period costume, Peterhof Palace (Petrodvorets Palace), St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe

Girls dressed in Heian period costume, Japanese Warriors Procession Festival, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia

Girls dressed in Heian period costume, Japanese Warriors Procession Festival, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia

Girls dressed in Heian period costume, Japanese Warriors Procession Festival, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia

Girls dressed in Heian period costume, Japanese Warriors Procession Festival, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia

Girls dressed in Heian period costume, Japanese Warriors Procession Festival, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia

Donkey race, Palio, Alba, Langhe, Piedmont, Italy

Couple, Procession in traditional costumes, Palio, Alba, Langhe, Piedmont, Italy

Standard bearer, Procession in traditional costumes, Palio, Alba, Langhe, Piedmont, Italy

Family in traditional costumes, Palio, Alba, Langhe, Piedmont, Italy

Donkey race, Palio, Alba, Langhe, Piedmont, Italy

Singers in period costume, Janitscharen military chapel Mehter Chapel, demonstration in the military museum, Askeri Mues, Osmanbey, Istanbul, Turkey

Woman plucking roses, Rose Festival for the beginning of the rose harvesting period, Karlovo, Bulgaria, Europe

Aoi Festival, procession from Shimogamo Shrine to Kamigamo Shrine, sunshade bearer with a court lady of Saio dai wearing traditional costumes from the Heian period, Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Court ladies of the royal household of the Saio dai, wearing the traditional headdress and kimono from the Heian Period, at the Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Japanese women in costumes from the Heian period, procession participants, Hirano Shrine, Kyoto, Japan, East Asia, Asia

Women and priests in kimonos of the Heian period during a Shinto prayer, Aoi Festival, in the Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Court ladies of the royal household of the Saio dai, wearing the traditional headdress and kimono from the Heian Period, at the Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Japanese women in costumes from the Heian period, procession participants, Hirano Shrine, Kyoto, Japan, East Asia, Asia

Life in the Baroque period of the 18th Century, court society in Venetian clothes in the courtyard with gate tower, Schiller Jahrhundertfest century festival, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Aoi festival, procession from the Imperial Palace to the Shimogamo Shrine, court lady of the Saio dai in traditional costume from the Heian period, Kyoto, Japan, Asia

Life in the Baroque period of the 18th Century, Venetian mask "Blue Flower", Schiller Jahrhundertfest century festival, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Singing vikings at procession in period dresses city of Brugge Belgium

Life in the Baroque period of the 18th Century, Venetian mask "Rose", Schiller Jahrhundertfest century festival, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Japanese women in costumes from the Heian period, procession participants, Hirano Shrine, Kyoto, Japan, East Asia, Asia

Life in the Baroque period of the 18th Century, Venetian mask "Rose", Schiller Jahrhundertfest century festival, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Life in the Baroque period of the 18th Century, Venetian mask "Blue Flower", Schiller Jahrhundertfest century festival, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Museum employee in period costume in front of an historic turf building at Glaumbaer, northcentral Iceland. An important discovery was made in Glaumbaer in 2001: the homestead of Thorfinn Karlsefni, the father of the first European born in the New World. This find has important implications for Viking history.

Farm In Fort Edmonton, Alberta

Farm In Fort Edmonton, Alberta

Man in period costume selling theatre tickets, Vienna (Wien), Austria