As you can see from the detail of the front of this man's robe, several narrow pieces of fabric have been inserted; they run from the lower hem and end in a point about mid-chest height. They hardly alter the shape of the basically rectangular garment, adding only a slight flare, but the tailor turned them into a decorative feature by using different fabrics. The main fabric of the robe is a white cotton woven with a pattern of small dart-like triangles. The insertions have been cut from white cotton of similar weight, woven with different patterns. From the left, the first insertion has a large zigzag pattern, the next has a smaller-scale zigzag, and the one next to that has a pattern of leaves. The right-hand insertion has been cut from the same fabric as the robe but it has been turned so that the pattern is at a different angle.