In ancient times, imitating the costume of "bugaku" (court dance and music), tayu put on "torikabuto" (ornamental hat in bugaku), but in the Muromachi period tayu seems to have put on "samurai-eboshi" (formal headwear for court nobles), "suo" (ceremonial dress of lower-class samurai) and "hirabakama" (man's formal divided skirt) and saizo put on something like "daikokuzukin" (hood like the god of good luck) and normally shouldered a big bag.
古くは舞楽の装束をまね、太夫は鳥兜（とりかぶと）をかぶっていたが、室町時代になると烏帽子（さむらいえぼし）をかぶり、素襖（すおう）に平袴（ひらばかま）姿に、才蔵は大黒頭巾風のものをかぶり、大袋を背負う格好が普通であったようである。