Complex sentence: After bathing, they were issued with a distinctive uniform: for men it might be a striped cotton shirt, jacket and trousers, and a cloth cap, and for women a blue-and-white striped dress worn underneath a smock.
Split into simpler sentences: After bathing, they were issued with a distinctive uniform: for men it was a striped cotton shirt, jacket and trousers, and a cloth cap. Women were given a blue-and-white striped dress worn underneath a smock.