Ceremonial dress, military uniform, religious clothing, academic dress, and folk costume appropriate to the formality level are generally permitted alongside the respective dresscodes and may be permitted as supplementary alternative exceptions to the uniformity, often in the form of headgear ("see biretta, kippah etc."). Conversely, since most cultures have at least intuitively applied some level equivalent to the more formal ones in Western dress code traditions, the latter's versatile framework open to amalgamation of international and local customs, have influenced its competitiveness as international standard formality scale.