Guys n girls

[AnGaaR]

Salamoona
hope everyone is doing fine..

[hila da chei tol kha yast]


i was wondering that do u guys wear Afghan pashtoon clothes while living in the west?
how often do you wear them?
do you feel comfortable going out with them or you think everyone is staring @ u ?
do you girls also wear panjabi dress and go out or not?



I myself wear it once a month except ramadhan.. during ramadhan i wear it all the time specially for going to masjid.

what will happen if we all start wearing our own national clothes (kamis partog) and go out ?

[*Mahzala*]

Wa alaykum Salamoona Angaar Wrora,

Our dress code says a lot about us as individuals, a lot about our status, our intellectual capacity, our education, our beliefs, morals and the like. Dress, possessions and company are the kind of things that say a lot about us without people having to approach us, they read us through our attire. But then when it comes down to the way some Muslims dress, you can put them into the same boat, in the sense that we're seen as Muslims, as foreigners, as migrants either way if you wear your traditional attire or not. So even if you don't wear it, at times, you do feel conscious of stares and comments thrown at you. I have only wore shalwaar kamees outside once (as an adult) and that was when I took a quick run to the supermarket next to our house (this was about five years ago). I wear shalwaar kamees at home because, not only are they basatra, but very comfortable. As a girl, I always wore speen partug with dresses outside. I'll be very honest, I don't own a single pair of Afghan clothes (sad, I know). My father has never wore a patlun in Australia. My mother still wears a speen partug with a jaakat damaan of any sort outside the house, alongside a few abayas she has. Wearing traditional clothes in my family is not something we shun, because of what others think of us. We have kept to those things quite closely. In saying that, we dress to suit the occasion and are quite good at it too

[IamDZJ]

angaar khana wala ka mo la domra taraqe kirri wee. mong kho d cha khabara "wrosta patey" khalak yo, pa amde jamo bandey guzara kawo. patey sho d patloon khabara no agha kho majborai na aghundo. showq kho mo na dey.

[Dukemina]

I've never worn anything but kamees partoog at home me whole life and love it. It's comfortable, stylish and modest and everything that Mahzala said in between! Same goes for the whole family boys and girls, when at home - no one wears western clothes

Outside, ofcourse abaya...

[Gulalai]

i always wear it at home (:
i wear it when going to my cousin's house, or other afghan's houses
i wear it if i am just going down the street for something
and i wear it if i am going somewhere with my family and they all are wearing it too lol

[Laila]

When i came back from Afghanistan, i absolutely love wearing kameez pardug. I wear it at home all the time,of course front of my father. My father doesnt like anyone wearing jeans at home. But when i go out, i wear my normal attire.

[Palwasha]

I hardly wear western clothes these days, I don't feel as comfortable in it. I don't mind dresses and stuff though.

Western clothes for women isn't really appreciated in my family either.

[Laila]

I literally have hundreds of kameez pardug....i have soooo much different colors, different styles. I have the Afghani styled one and the Pekhwari style ones too. They are the best things for namaz also because the scarf is really big, so it wraps around very well.

[Gulalai]

^ lucky, its so hard to find clothes here : (

[Laila]

^ over there, i had clothes being made every single day. Its so normal there to take to the tailor. But yeah....there are good stores here and really pricy, but they are really Indian/Punjabi style. And i dont wanna wear that at home lol. I love how Afghan women wear theirs with the long scarfs....that is what i wore there

[Gulalai]

^ lol yeah i get all my clothes when someone in my family goes back home or even to Europe then they bring me some clothes (:

[Laila]

Yeah there are plenty of good ones in Europe, especially in Sattal, London. But remember, its so much cheaper from Afghanistan or Pakistan

[Gulalai]

^yeah but no one in my family has been back home recently, inshallah some weddings are coming up so i will go myself xD inshallah..

[Laila]

^ oh okay =) does your mom know how to make shalwar kameez from teekah. If she does, that may work. My mom does, and sometimes she makes it for herself.

[Gulalai]

^she knows a little bit. yeah shes making me a jorra for eid right now :P
we also just heard of an afghan lady who moved here a month ago who makes clothes for others, like $20 a jorra