Ladies Shalwar Kameez Pakistani Biography
Source (Google.com.pk)
The term Pakistani clothing refers to the ethnic clothing
that is typically worn by individuals in the country of Pakistan and by the
People of Pakistani descent. Pakistani clothes express the Culture of Pakistan,
the Demographics of Pakistan and regional Cultures which include Punjabi
culture, Sindhi culture, Balochi culture, Pashtun culture and Kashmiri culture.
Dress in each regional culture reflect weather conditions, way of living and
distinctive style which gives it a unique identity among all cultures.
Pakistani dressing has similarities with Indian dressing because of
pre-partition culture which was shared by these nations for thousand years but
the religious factor was always there which makes a difference. Traditional
Pakistani dressing also shares similarities between the ethnic groups of
central Asia and ethnicities of the Iranian plateau such as the Turkic ethnic
groups (i.e. Khazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmens) and Iranic ethnic groups (Tajiks,
Khorasani Persians and Pashtoons), that have been separate from the cultures of
modern day Pakistan during the Durand agreement between Afghanistan and the
British raj. With the passage of time Pakistanis are adapting modern dress and
cultural clothing, especially in big countries.The shalwar kameez is the national
dress of Pakistan and is worn by men and women in all four provinces Punjab,
Sindh, Baluchistan, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and FATA in the country and in Azad
Kashmir. Each province has its own style of wearing the Shalwar
Qameez.Pakistanis wairclothes range from exquisite colors and designs to the
type of fabric (silk, chiffon, cotton, etc.).Shalwar Kameez is the closest to
Islamic dress (Evidently there is no such dress as Islmic, but one which covers
the body in the maximum possible way). Salwar Kameez does pass this test and
probably because of which it is the most preferred dress by women. Garments cut
like the traditional kameez are known in many cultures; according to Dorothy
Burnham, of the Royal Ontario Museum, the "seamless shirt," woven in one
piece on warp-weighted looms, was superseded in early Roman times by cloth
woven on vertical looms and carefully pieced so as not to waste any cloth. 10th
century cotton shirts recovered from the Egyptian desert are cut much like the
traditional kameez or the contemporary Egyptian jellabah or galabia.Salwar
Kameez is being made with various fabrics like Georgette salwar kameez, chiffon
salwar kameez, net salwar kameez, satin salwar kameez, cotton salwar kameez,
silk salwar kameez and other fabrics including the latest trend of fusion
fabrics which is mix of the above and synthetic fabric. that Mediaeval Latin
camisia is a borrowing through Hellenistic Greek kamision from the Central
Semitic root “qm?”, represented by Ugaritic qm? (‘garment’) and Arabic qami?
(‘shirt’). Both of these are related to the Hebrew verb ??? qm? (‘grip’,
‘enclose with one’s hand’). The differences exist between Men’s and Women’s
Salwaar Kameez. If anything, the shalwar-kameez is a Zoroastrian Iranian
national costume, and despite the Arab invasion of Iran in the 7th century the
Parthian shalwar-kameez prevailed as a dress code in most of these countries.
This can also be seen by its continuous usage for over 2,000 years in the
villages of Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Yazd and Luristan in Iran. Men and women
both were used to wear salwar kameez as part of the traditional dress but over
the years Salwar Kameez has found its popularity in India and Pakistan and the
salwar kameez is still getting worn in the continent.
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