Women's clothing

 

Women's clothing

Shalwar kameez[edit]

Pakistani women wear the shalwar kameez which is worn in different styles, colours and designs which can be decorated with different styles and designs of embroidery. The kameez can be of varying sleeve length, shirt length, necklines. The drawers can be the straight-cut shalwar, patiala salwar, churidar, cigarette pajama, tulip trouser, samosa pajama or simple trouser

Dupatta[edit]

The Dupatta is treated just as an accessory in current urban fashion. Most women who carry it nowadays, wear it just as a decorative accessory; wrapping around the neck or hanging down the shoulder. Most of the young generation in urban areas do not carry it at all. Dupatta is also used by some women when entering a mosque, dargah, church, gurdwara or mandir, it is the habit in the Indian subcontinent for women to cover their head with a dupatta while entering such places. It is widely worn by women in wedding and other parties out of choice and fashion. On such occasions mostly it is wrapped around the waist, neck or just put on a shoulder. It is used with different embroidery designs of Kamdani and Gota.

Bridal dresses[edit]

Pakistani bridal dresses are known as Nikah, walima or shadi dress, the out fit is called gharara, shadi dress is divided by 3 pieces a lehenga/ gharara, kurti and dupatta. They are particularly of very specific colors such as red, golden or pink and purple.

Other traditional dresses[edit]

Pakistani women have a variety of traditional dresses in addition to the shalwar kameez but they mostly wear them on special occasions such as on weddings, engagements, mehndi and other traditional ceremonies.

The dresses include the ghagra choli and saris which are very popular and every design and colour seems unique from the other e.g. lehenga style sari. The lehenga is another popular dress that resembles a skirt but is a traditional dress. The gharara and sharara are two similar dresses that are often worn on ceremonial occasions. Farshi Pajama is an old traditional dress which is worn occasionally. Laacha is worn in Punjab,^[17] the lower part of which resembles the dhoti.

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