It is traditionally white, beige, cream or ecru, although it is available in other colors.
Recently, liqui liquis have been worn by famous personalities in Venezuela for their weddings, in a renaissance of traditional dress – for example, Venezuelan folk musician Simón Díaz was known to almost always wear one.
The outfit is made up of a pair of full-length trousers and a jacket.
The jacket has long sleeves and a rounded Nehru-style collar, which is fastened and decorated by a junta (chain link similar to a cufflink), which joins the two ends of the collar.
The more accepted version is that the liqui liqui is derived from the uniform of colonial-era soldiers, whose jacket or liquette had a similar shape – hence the name and the collar.