Description The royal ladies in the frescoes wear pleated robes from the waist upwards, save for necklace, armlets, wrist lets, ear and hair ornaments and displayed their breasts. The ladies in waiting wear waist clothes, few ornaments and a firm 'breast bandage' or thanapatiya. The Sigiriya style of clothing Sigiriya frescoes depict women wearing the cloth gracefully draped like a dhoti tied in a knot at the front and pulled down to expose the navel must have survived a few centuries in Ceylon'.