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English: Description: This elaborate eight-piece costume is an example of the traditional festive dress of Moroccan Jewish women, worn by brides and at other celebrations. It is probably based on medieval Spanish Jewish costume, with its origins usually traced to the 15th century Spanish vertugada (hoop skirt, known as a "farthingale" in England).
The berberisca dress or keswa-el-kbira (Arabic: الكسوة الكبيرة, 'the grand gown') is a traditional dress for a Moroccan Jewish woman for her wedding. Traditionally a father gifts his daughter a berberisca dress for her wedding and the first time she wears it is at the henna ceremony .
The takshita is composed of two pieces, a dress as a first layer called tahtiya, often of fine but not ornately decorated fabric, and a more elaborate second layer or over-dress that often buttons up the front using the traditional sfifa and akaad closures and it is called dfina. The upper layer is often richly adorned with embroidery, beading ...
Moroccan women wearing takshita (1939 photo) A Moroccan kaftan portrait of his excellence Mohamed Ben Ali abgali with Al sulham, ambassadeur of king morocco to the court of saint jame.august 1725. The traditional dress for men and women [ 59 ] is called djellaba ( جلابة ); a long, loose, hooded garment with full sleeves.
Moroccan man wearing a djellaba Traditionally, djellabas are made of wool in different shapes and colours, but lightweight cotton djellabas have now become popular. Among the Berbers, or Imazighen, such as the Imilchil in the Atlas Mountains , the colour of a djellaba traditionally indicates the marital status (single or married) of the bearer ...
The berberisca dress (or keswa-el-kbria in Arabic) is a traditional dress for a Moroccan Jewish woman for her wedding. Although most Moroccan Jews tend to dress in styles of their adopted countries, traditional Moroccan clothing is sometimes worn during celebrations (Mimouna, weddings, Bar Mitzvas, etc.) or even during more intimate gatherings ...
Pages in category "Moroccan clothing" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Burnous; C. Chechia; D.
Urban Algerian man wearing a white/beige burnous, 19th century. A burnous (Arabic: برنوس, romanized: burnūs), also burnoose, burnouse, bournous or barnous, is a long cloak of coarse woollen fabric with a pointed hood, often white in colour, traditionally worn by Arab and Berber men in North Africa. [1]