Last year in Indonesia the leaders wore batik shirts.

"This is a treasure house," said Mr. Lapidus, who since retirement has traded in his signature bow ties for casual batik shirts.

The man was wearing a batik shirt so long it reached to his knees and caramel colored leather sandals that exposed feet with thick-ridged toenails.

The resort's casino is Malaysia's only such legal gambling house, with strict dress codes requiring men to wear ties or long-sleeved batik shirts.

For secondary school (years 7-11), the batik shirt is replaced with a light blue shirt for both boys and girls.

Clinton, still in an unflattering batik shirt, was running late.

After the four were dressed with pants and batik shirts, there were taken away to the so-called secret location.

Meanwhile, the chief in a batik shirt, his teeth decoratively capped with silver, kept a critical eye on the dancing.

The batik shirt was invented as a formal non-Western shirt for men in Indonesia in the 1960s, not long after the country's birth.

For the Jakarta visit, we donned colorful Indonesian batik shirts.