salahuddin/kharabatulddin

[Catya Sher]

Look at the way the turban tails stick out:
it must be some gauzy type of material.
Aren't most turbans from silk or else maybe rayon?

That is SOME turban !!
Though I don't agree with randolph on politics, he does
find some of the best illustrations.
I still remember the one with jirga members clapping...it
was well placed,
at the end of a PF dispute which had been - temporarily -
resolved through arbitration.

[Digital Malang]

@ Catya
these kinds are made of cotton and the way we tie it up, sticks out the shamla (turban tail) very easily.

[randolph85]

i have always wondered why southern pashtuns in afg/pak wear mostly lungis and eastern pashtuns wear mostly pakols. i know the pakol originated from northern pakistan and it might be a geography issue, but were there many pakol wearers pre soviet jihad?

[randolph85]

from what i have seen, the original pakols are too flat. i prefer afghan pakols since i have a big head.

[Catya Sher]

It's a good question as to whether the pakuls were much in use before
the early jihad days.
I remember reading about them in older books as "the Nuristani cap" - so maybe
before the anti-Soviet time, they were largely confined to Nuristan?
A guess.

Turbans are SO MUCH more dignified and nicer, no matter what though!

Cotton cloth really? That's surely healthy, and will hold up well over the years.
I had one that I kept for years but finally sent back over there for someone who could use it !
It was black and metallic grey striped.
Now I miss it a little...
boo hoo

[graveyardofempires]

It's a good question as to whether the pakuls were much in use before
the early jihad days.
I remember reading about them in older books as "the Nuristani cap" - so maybe
before the anti-Soviet time, they were largely confined to Nuristan?
A guess.

Turbans are SO MUCH more dignified and nicer, no matter what though!

Cotton cloth really? That's surely healthy, and will hold up well over the years.
I had one that I kept for years but finally sent back over there for someone who could use it !
It was black and metallic grey striped.
Now I miss it a little...
boo hoo

Catya
pakols have been there from a long time
and its mostly worn in the eastern provinces among which my province of kunar.
it is also worn in pukhtunkhwa especially tribal areas.
nowadays it is also widely worn in kabul and northern and western Afghansitan and also south but in south they majorly wear that balochi cap and turban and turbans are also again worn in east west north south and pukhtunkhwa.
i have a patkey/lungey/turban its pistacio green with stripes and i also have couple of pakols.