Traditional Dress

[Arthur-MingJiang]

I love traditonal Korean Women Dresses

[i move the stars for no one]

ooh,just looked through this thread again-i love the headdresses above on this page and the makeup for the Chinese operas is just amazing-so beautiful.

[muzo]

omg the hazaras look gooooorgeous..

here's some tibetan for everyone to enjoy


thats from the Ngari region in the west


thats Kham in the east


ladakh (north india)


central /eastern tibet


mount kailash pilgrims (very cold)


kham, east tibet


kham again

[Thir Jiang Li]

I love choengsams! (I think I spelled it right ) I have one, but it's really difficult to walk in though...have to take very small steps Anyway, I've always loved the Chinese Tang Dynasty dresses:




And these are the traditional costumes of Norway, called a "bunad". The style and colour varies depending on which part of the country you're from:




I want one for my birthday....

[dela cruz]

Denmark have no official traditional dress but these are examples of how some peasents would look like when breaking it down on the dancefloor. ca. 1800.

Reminds a bit of the Norwegian and Swedish.





And Greenland...

[muzo]

^ i like the greenlandic ones.. wats the traditional filipino dress? i suppose there's loads of different ones per island huh?

here's some more tibetan dresses.. mainly from nomads




























ok i think thats enough 4 today

[bulaklak]

thunderbolt said:

^wats the traditional filipino dress? i suppose there's loads of different ones per island huh?

I think someone posted some before but here we go.


Barong Tagalog for the guys. ^ hes cute ;D


lol there is store called "Barongs R Us"


Balintawak?

I couldn't find a nice Maria Clara. Anyone have more examples? I don't really know much about Filipino traditional clothes.

[jenming]

thunderbolt said:

Amir, do you know where those kinds of hats came from? how did they become traditional tibetan dress? Every time I see them, I think that they must have originally come from somewhere other than tibet.

[muzo]

^ its a tibetan thing i guess... maybe adopted from the english *explorer hat*?
i just kno everyone's wearing them, just like in bolivia or so (they r smaller there tho)

[muzo]

they only wear them in east tibet tho

[╗]

aiko said:

The Hazaras of Afghanistan are gorgeous. They're the descendent of the last Mongol army and their Turk counterparts.

Whoa, ethnic EAs !

I think Central Asians (like countries ending with "-stan") are pretty much "full-blooded" Eurasians.

[z.]

I like indonesia/malaysia's (+singapore) traditional dress, i think it's called the 'baju kebaya'

this is an example of it, from the miss universe 2005 national costume parade:


a modern twist on it is the 'sarong kebaya' one of the most famous versons is singapore airline's uniform:

[Aiko]

Here are more Central Asian costumes

Mongolians vary so greatly within the nation that it's made up of tons of different tribes. Some are Mongol, and some are actually Turkic. Some resemble Tibetans a lot.




Bellydance costumes

[halfy]

Questions for the girls:

Would you wear any of these traditional dresses?

Do you think you have to look more asian to wear the cheong sam?

[cel2]

halfy said:

Questions for the girls:

Would you wear any of these traditional dresses?

Do you think you have to look more asian to wear the cheong sam?

Yes and no. I wore my cheongsam last week. I have worn the batik material dresses, a couple of saris and a few Indian salwar kurtas. I might feel a bit ridiculous putting on a kimono, knowing I don't relate to the culture much and the first time I wore an indian suit in public, I was nervous. Turned out I looked like the Afghan women around me anyway. Only the hair was a bit off-looking.

Some years ago.


Few months ago.


No posting pics in the cheongsam. Those slits are dangerous.