Military uniforms in Eastern-dominant TLs?

Military uniforms in use across the world today are based largely on European designs, stemming either from European-informed military modernization programs (such as in Meiji Japan), or inherited by post-colonial states.

In a timeline where Europe did not rise to become the dominant political/economic/military force - i.e., timelines where Asian or Middle Eastern civilizations fill this role - what form do you think military uniforms would take? Would the types of clothing used by imperial armies in medieval and early modern Asia and the Middle East continue in use? Or would utilitarian considerations tend to result in a convergence wherein most ATL uniforms would in some respect come to resemble their modern OTL counterparts?

I'm considering both dress uniforms for officer corps and ceremonial use, and battlefield combat dress; these have tended to diverge greatly over the last century, so speculation on the manner and timing of such a divergence in Eastern-dominant ATLs is also welcome.
 
Well there are three answers;

Formal Dress/Uniforms:
In the case of Formal stuff it would more likely than not be either the traditional 'Warrior Garb' or something that developed from it naturally over time, so in Japan you might have modern Formal Military Dress be split into the Upper Brass (like the equivalent of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff etc.) wearing stuff based on the stuff the Shoguns wore while lower ones would be some form of ceremonial kimono like the Samurai wore.

Casualwear/Combat Ready:
This is the kind of stuff the soldiers wear on-duty during peacetime and while doing stuff that's not going to require active combat (like working on an Aircraft Carrier or in a safe command post), this is most likely going to be a sort of hybrid and/or innovation based on traditional style that takes into account the need for some utilitarianism to allow for some basic fighting as well as more common physical tasks; while it likely would not influence general dress, to use Japan again, something based on the Ninja outfits would probably be a good idea for this type of thing.

Combatwear:
This is the stuff that's worn during war and fighting (in the U.S. this and the above tend to be the same, with the latter being the bottom layer), as such it's going to be very similar to OTL as fighting demands certain things, and militaries are not going to give a damn about 'traditional dress' when it comes to actually fighting a war; the real difference would be that the whole damned world would'nt adopt camo patterns as the default.
 
This actually already happened, the hussars wore a dolman and a pelisse, both items of military fashion borrowed from the Turks. In Napoleon's time only the hussars wore jackets buttoned at the front. The average soldier was wearing an unbuttoned tailed coat over a waist coat. The dolman would influence the ceremonial jacket worn by all Westen militaries. So I guess you could say the modern military formal dress owes its lineage to Ottoman fashion.

And if you go back far enough the trouser was introduced to the West by Persians.
 
Manchurian riding coats (Magua) are highly practical, and don't bear excessive decorations, so they look pretty much the same for anyone, and have much in common with comtemporary European uniforms regarding design.
A prince and his entourage along with German officers:
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Soldiers with no firearms:
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A longer version of Magua. There's no buttons on the lower part, reflecting its original purpose of a garment for riding.
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A picture showing people wearing trousers, not skirts like the ones above:
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Thanks! Wasn't aware of the Ottoman and Persian origins of some aspects of Western military uniforms.

For the Chinese uniforms cited above, were these unique to the Qing dynasty? Or did they exist in earlier dynasties as well? For example, in expansionist-Ming timelines where China is able to establish overseas colonies during the 15th and 16th centuries, would it be more likely that Chinese military dress too would expand to colonized lands?
 
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