If the president of the United States can go to an extended war in the doab of the Tigris and Euphrates without international sanction, then I too can rake up irrelevant matters and elaborate at great length. Such as on the male attire that is the Nepali national dress.
The top is called the labeda, daura or mayelpose. It is a double-breasted kurta whose flaps are battened down in four places with ties, in a diagonal across the chest. The bottom is the suruwal; the same as what the British named jodhpurs, it is skin-tight around the calves, growing to incongruous pleated proportions around the groin.
Both labeda and suruwal came to the middle Himalaya from Rajasthan, more proof for Kathmandu's warrior-caste elite to trace its bloodline back to the desert out west. Rajasthan, home now to Pokhran I and Pokhran II, for a while did a brisk export of Rajput chieftains to the far corners.
The topi was already there, and at some point during the time that Nepal was never colonised by the Company Bahadur, the Western jacket arrived to be called 'coat'. The national dress of Nepal now comes in four pieces: the topi which can be dented and fashioned to create individual signatures; a most distinctive labeda top; the coat which completely covers whatever is distinctive about the labeda; and the suruwal, an uncomfortable bottom that sometimes comes with a full legged inner (bhitri). Way back in 1980, a Kathmandu dignitary visiting London was spoofed in a television programme as having arrived at Heathrow in his long johns.