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In Pakistan, upper and middle-class women in towns wear burqas over their normal clothes in public. [17] [18] The burqa is the most visible dress in Pakistan. It is a garment worn over the ordinary clothes and is made of white cotton. Many upper-class women wear a two-piece burqa which is usually black in colour but sometimes navy blue or dark red.
Sindhi women and men wear the Shalwar Qameez or the Kurta with Pyjama. Women also wear Sari or ghagra. However, before the adoption of the Shalwar kameez, kurta, the Sari as well as other articles of clothing, Sindhis had their own traditional costumes. The group of Sindhi girls in traditional Sindhi clothes from central Sindh.
The jama was worn by men in the Punjab region during the Mughal period. The phrase "jora jama" refers to the clothes given by the maternal uncle to the groom, [100] which points to the jama being part of Punjabi clothing (although grooms do not wear the jama now). A local style of shawl called the jamawar which was striped was used as a gown.
Pathani Suit is an ethnic outfit for men in the South Asian culture. Basically it is a Muslim dress similar to Salwar kameez.It comprises three garments Kurta (along with tunic), Salwaar (a loosely gathered trouser), and a vest (a waistcoat), which is optional.
The traditional clothing for the lower region is the khat partug which is a shalwar kameez combination and is worn by men and women. The khat (also called khattaki or in Marwat Pashtu, kamis) [1] is the shirt which fits closely to the body to the waist and then flares out, either to the knees, or in the case of women, to the ankles.
Balochi women wear loose dresses which are Balochi needlework and embroidered in local designs which include Balochi silk-thread chain-stitch embroidery. [ 16 ] Serig: It is a kind of big rectangular scarf that is decorated with embroidery.
The national dress of Pakistan is the Persian origin shalwar kameez, a unisex garment widely-worn around South Asia, [61] [62] and national dress, [63] of Pakistan. When women wear the shalwar-kameez in some regions, they usually wear a long scarf or shawl called a dupatta around the head or neck. [64]
[17] [21] [22] The shalwar-kameez is widely-worn by men and women in Pakistan, [23] [24] and is the country's national dress. [25] It is also widely worn by men and women in Afghanistan, [26] and some men in the Punjab region of India, from which it has been adopted by women throughout India, [27] and more generally in South Asia. [28]