Many countries have abandoned traditional clothing

[Haris]

I will poste also some other pictures of traditional clothing of my country, not willing to disturb in no way, so if the administration considers it not right, I please to delete them. I am doing it here as guest for a general interest, not willing to offend nobody.

No worries Arevpasht, we appreciate learning of different cultures here.

Thanks for sharing.

[Elsii]

Thank you for sharing Arevapasht! Some of that clothing is really nice! Can you still buy that style of clothing?

[Tjanaparh]

Dear Elsii, to answer You, You can buy some types of them, they are mostly pproduced on request, but some types get lost with the loose of the territories where they were produced. However many attributes and clothes are in sell in a central national objects exposition.

[AFG21]

Because evreone wants to looke like thos actors in the movies they see. Pashtun also will stop wearing traditional clothes if they get the chance and money to buy western clothing. And it is happing now, at the weding I see the mojority of women wear punjabi clothing than traditional afghan ones, and after couple of years if the parents let them they will even wear western clothes.

[Ghorzang]

Nowadays, it is cheaper & comfortable to an extent to wear pants and shirt compare to wearing traditional clothing. For example,

- Our kameez and partog gets dirty very fast. You have to wash, wait till it drys and you almost have no option but to iron it as well. On the other hand, you don't have to wash jeans or pants that often.

- It is also cheaper because you can buy a pair or two of pants/jeans and you can get simple shirts and t-shirts for $.50 to $1.00 compare to spending $5 - $10 on a pair of kameez and partoogs.

- Obviously style plays a major role as well. Our traditional clothes are very plain and simple. The most you can do is change colors (even there you don't have too many options as you can't wear red, blue, green, yellow, pink, orange etc).

Still, I love kameez partoog and always wear them. I have about 6 pairs here in Canada.

[graveyardofempires]

shirts for 50 cent?
where is that?

[IamDZJ]

probably back home.

[Midnight_Sun]

First of all, pants was first introduced by Central Asians. So in a sense, they adopted our dress from the get go.

But anways, the reasons were already said by others.

1. Readily available
2. Cheap to mass produce
3. European/North American Mass Media cultural exposure via sports, internet, music, etc.
4. Effects of Imperialism and its inferiority complex (India, South and N. Africa, China, Eurasia)

[MohannaD]

Arevapasht

Which ones are seen more often ?

[Tjanaparh]

Dear Mohannad - last years these two were among the most popular.

[MohannaD]

Dear Mohannad - last years these two were among the most popular.

Aha thank you .

[Elsii]

Arevapasht, do you have any of those clothes yourself? I would love to see photos of what the real ones look like

Does anyone wear Peshawari Chappals?

[graveyardofempires]

Arevapasht, do you have any of those clothes yourself? I would love to see photos of what the real ones look like

Does anyone wear Peshawari Chappals?

i got a couple of those and sometimes wear them when going to weddigns.

btu i need me a new pair.

this one in this picture looks awsome and original

[Tjanaparh]

Dear Elsii, I have got only some pieces(hat and upper part - the traditional shoes are difficult to get for mi as I have a big footsize, but now i have left them to my relatives as I couldn't bring here many things(I mouved some weeks ago). So I can show only pictures on other people

[qazi]

Thank goodness Pashtuns still wear traditional clothing.