Afghan clothing

Afghan clothing styles reflect that Afghanistan is home to various ethnicities including the Tajiks, Pashtun, Hazara, Uzbek and smaller populations of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashayi, Nuristani, Arab, Brahui, Pamiri, and Gurjar. They have their own particular traditions.

Uzbeks of Afghanistan

Styles
Shirt with "Kandahari doozi" (a type of embroidery)

Men's clothing includes the khet partug, perahan tunban, the turban and local styles of coats.

Generally, traditional women's dresses in Afghanistan are made from light linens and are loose fitting for ease of movement. They come in many colors and have stitching for details. One unique style of casual women's dress is the Kandahari doozi embroidery stitching of the city of Kandahar. This is stitching very intricately in the linens in different shapes and patterns using very thin threads. The more intricate the design, the more pricey the garment.

More elaborate and fancier dresses are detailed with gold threading (Zardozi), gold beads, and come in many different colors on silk fabrics. These dresses are usually worn to special occasions and weddings.

Pashtun
Main article: Pashtun clothing

As a chiefly rural and tribal population, the Pashtun dress of Afghanistan is typically made from light linens, and are loose fitting for ease of movement. These dresses have been historically worn by all Afghan tribes, as they originate from Afghanistan.

Male clothing

The traditional male dress includes the Khet partug and Perahan wa tunban. Males usually wear kufi, Kandahari cap, traditional lungee or patkay turban, Mazari hat, or pakul as traditional headgear. Pashtun leaders sometimes wear a karakul hat, like President Hamid Karzai and former monarchs of Afghanistan.

Female dress
Womens In The Streets, Preparing to go out, Afghans costumes,Sketches in Afganistán By James Atkinson 1842

The traditional female dress is the Firaq partūg. Women wear solid-colored trousers, a long kamīs shirt with a belt. Sometimes they will wear an encompassing burqa over this outfit or a tsādar on their head.[1]

  • Kandahar Lady of ranks 1848
  • Boys wearing Khet partug
  • Group of Afghans during the Second Anglo-Afghan War
  • Afghan girls in traditional clothes
  • Afghan School children in Kabul
  • 2010 Children's Day in Afghanistan
  • American GI walks down the runway during a fashion show dressed in a colorful, traditional Afghan dress. The March 3, 2008
  • Afghan kids wearing traditional clothes in Kabul
  • 2009 Herat Afghanistan women wearing chador
  • Firaq partug of the Kuchi region
  • Women wearing firaq partug
  • An Afghan girl circa 1879
  • Man in Afghan clothing: Perahan tunban
  • Men wearing perahan tunban in the southern city of Kandahar
  • Men wearing Perahan tunban, form of shalwar kameez at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan
  • Pasztun - Qajsār - 001621s
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See also

References
  1. "Pashtun - Introduction, Location, Language, Folklore, Religion, Major holidays, Rites of passage". Everyculture.com. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
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