SYRIAN FOLK

Syrian folk costume.

A woman's costume consists of trousers, a shirt, a sweater or jacket, mainly made of blue cotton fabric, and a headscarf, tied differently than for men. The traditional festive clothing of women is very colorful - multi-colored and embroidered dresses, sweaters, sleeveless vests, cylindrical hats, bedspreads. In cities, the bulk of the population dresses in a European style, with emphasized elegance. But there are also women in national clothes and even covering their faces with a black veil, the wearing of which in the past was mandatory for city women.

Villagers most often wear striped shirts that fall to the heels - kunbaz - or shorter shirts and wide pants that taper below the knees. You can often find a Syrian in the traditional clothes of a nomad: a long wide shirt, an open caftan, often decorated with braids, a large white or checkered headscarf folded diagonally, intercepted by a dark woolen cord (ukal).