Images of traditionally dressed upper-class Mongolian women are scattered through UB City in ads or postcards. Check out these pictures of the traditional costumes of Mongolian women:
Look familiar? That’s because George Lucas used the outfits of Mongolian queens as the source for one of Queen Amidala’s costumes. Although it pains me that this now means that a pic of Amidala shows up as the first GoogleImage result for “Mongolian traditional dress,” using historical Mongolian dress as inspiration is still pretty cool.Who knew there was such a direct link between Mongolia and Natalie Portman?
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