Fustanella have also influenced the evolution of the fustanella based on statues of Roman emperors wearing knee-length pleated skirts (in colder regions, more folds were added to provide greater warmth). Folklorist Ioanna Papantoniou considers the Celtic kilt, as viewed by the Roman legions, to have served as a prototype. Sir Arthur Evans considered the fustanella of the female peasants (worn over and above the Slavonic apron) living near the modern Bosnian-Montenegrin borders as a preserved Illyrian element among the local Slavic-speaking populations. In the Byzantine Empire, a pleated skirt known as the "podea" (Greek: ποδέα) was worn. The wearer of the
Grass skirt plaited, is known as a . In Nauru culture the native dress of both sexes consists of a , a bushy skirt composed of thin strips of "pandanus" palm-leaf that can be both short, knee- and foot-long. In Tonga, the grass skirt was known as a and were worn in dance performances. The Sotho people traditionally wore grass skirts called the . Grass skirt A grass skirt is a costume and garment made with layers of plant fibres such as grasses (Poaceae) and leaves that is fastened at the waistline. Grass skirts were introduced to Hawaii by immigrants from the