So the elaborate robes and badges of rank actually meant something.
On ceremonial occasions more elaborate robes and wigs are worn.
He was cloaked in a large, elaborate robe that seemed five sizes too big on him.
He was wearing the most elaborate robes of all, and a headdress of monumental proportions.
Halfway up the steps, alone except for a few assistants standing behind him, stood a bearded man dressed in elaborate robes and head covering.
When dragons appear on an elaborate robe, for instance, it is the whole garment that dazzles.
He wore a short red linen tunic and over it an elaborate open robe, richly embroidered.
Four grim-faced men in elaborate embroidered robes stood behind him.
Several were down to the plain cotton undergarments they wore under their elaborate robes.
Later, more elaborate robes would be donned for the Blood Bonding ceremony.
