 A few women (particularly of the older generation) wear a unique style of traditional dress, with many layers of colourful fabric, now only worn on special occasions.On festive occasions they also wore a madras (originally a "kerchief" from South India) headscarf tied in many different symbolic ways, each with a different name.The headdress could be tied in the "bat" style, or the "firefighter" style, as well as the "Guadeloupean woman".