England

COSTUMES
England, unlike Wales and Scotland, has no official national dress.
Some people think men in England wear suits and bowler hats, but it is very unusual these days to see anyone wearing abowler hat.
An English National Costume group are trying to make England's national dress be the clothes worn by the Anglo Saxons during the 7th century. The Anglo-Saxons were warrior-farmers and camefrom north-western Europe. They began to invade Britain during 450 A.D.
A far better choice for an English national dress would be to choose from our many customs and traditions we have in England.There are a wide variety of costumes from the spectacular ceremonies associated with monarchy to the traditional costumes worn by morris dancers and others at English country fairs.
The Pearl Kingswere the leaders of the Victorian street sellers. They got their name because the wore ‘pearl’ buttons on their hats as a sing of authority. Later they began to wear clothes covered all over inbuttons.
The title of Pearly King is passed down in the family, and there are Pearly Queens, Prince and Princesses too. They now spend their free time collecting for charity.
Beefeater and Yeomen of theGuard are very important because they look after our queen and her jewels. Some people say this is the nearest thing to our national costume.

LANGUAGE
As its name suggests, the English language,today spoken by hundreds of millions of people around the world, originated as the language of England, where it remains the principal tongue today. It is an Indo-European language inthe Anglo-Frisian branch of the Germanic family. After the Norman conquest, the Old English language was displaced and confined to the lower social classes as Norman French and Latin were used by the aristocracy.

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