what is zanana kali (dress) in Afghanistan?

[*Mahzala*]

Yes. My father showed me pictures of his pohantoon years. He looked like Ashton Kutcher. He was wearing bell bottoms, had sunglasses on all the time, and medium length hair, driving a beetle, listening to The Beatles.

My mother wore skirts, coats, dresses, permed her hair, etc. I was surprised to also hear and see this. But it was all normal.

Yep, all that jazz, but limited to certain places. Other places it was the nice blue uniform

[ComradePashtun]

lol oos lagya oosa! shpeeto kaloo ta waraseedey, aw wrendara la darak nsata? Otherwise you would be asking her these qquestions.

[Laila]

Yep, all that jazz, but limited to certain places. Other places it was the nice blue uniform

Yep =)

I always wished i had seen those days.

[Toramana]

Forty years ago, Kabul was considered the playground of South East Asia, a city booming with art, where girls wore the cowboy American attire to university and attended fashionable parties that mirrored the night life of Paris, sporting Chanel miniskirts and Guy Laroche cosmetics. In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised. When my mother, who I think would be the most conservative woman I know, tells me about what she wore, when and where she did in her youth and her early married life before moving here, I am very very surprised. And what she tells me about it now, even more.

That is interesting to know...What I observed in Pekhawar is that, the Dari speakers who mostly lived in posh localities were very fond of fashion. Probably, they were from Kabul. We local people were simple compared to them.

[Laila]

That is interesting to know...What I observed in Pekhawar is that, the Dari speakers who mostly lived in posh localities were very fond of fashion. Probably, they were from Kabul. We local people were simple compared to them.

Yes, people who hail from Kabul City tend to be more modernized and into fashion. Three decades ago, that is how the whole capital was.

[Toramana]

lol oos lagya oosa! shpeeto kaloo ta waraseedey, aw wrendara la darak nsata? Otherwise you would be asking her these qquestions.

Hahahahaaa...actually am not in this soft-gender business (nor the hard-one)...like the "non-mandane" things of life...hahahaaa...

[*Mahzala*]

That is interesting to know...What I observed in Pekhawar is that, the Dari speakers who mostly lived in posh localities were very fond of fashion. Probably, they were from Kabul. We local people were simple compared to them.

Afghans stand out everywhere, for the good and the bad fashion statements they make. Maybe they're not, but the Afghans I know always appear overdressed.

[Gulbabo]

gard laman with spin partog for older women.

for younger ones, anythin kameez partog.

[ghundal]

I thought it is the tradional gagra but what I see in the clip below is different.



I am sorry for posting the above clip but i thought it might not be private because it was on youtube.

so do you want to buy yourself a dress?

[kakargirl]

attachment.jpgwror helmand traditional clothing this is what we wear day in day out through out the year even in wedding, same in kandahar day in day out this is what females tradional dress is except for koochian they wear the the dresses

[Toramana]

so do you want to buy yourself a dress?

ghwandal khana (pakhwanai Ph. D. fail) maa asai da malomaro dapara tapos kawoo, noor mai sa ghaeaz na woo, ... yara chai da agha huro ba sanga kali wi, ghwandal khana tha kho ba pa sai khwalasa munya katali wi kana,,,kana?

[Toramana]

[ATTACH]4642[/ATTACH]wror helmand traditional clothing this is what we wear day in day out through out the year even in wedding, same in kandahar day in day out this is what females tradional dress is except for koochian they wear the the dresses

kakargirl khorai daira manana...this means kamis partug is the dominent dress with gradlaman for elder women ... and in Kabul, it gets more westernised.

[Laila]

^ The capital has been more Westernized....but when has it not lol. Still, its half and half. Many of the females still wear kamis partug, and many wear Western cloths.

But outside of the capital city, they are very much rural conservatives.

[kakargirl]

kakargirl khorai daira manana...this means kamis partug is the dominent dress with gradlaman for elder women ... and in Kabul, it gets more westernised.

wror forget kabul lol lets talk about the heartland of pashtuns kandahar helmand we wear partog kameez very nice lol

[Laila]

This is how the Kabul school girls dress in



but if you are in the streets....the females should not wear colored shalwar kameez, they tend to get harrassed. I experienced it a few times. So they have to wear a long scarf that covers it up, or a black cloak over it.

Kabul women still practice burqas