Cultural Aspects Of Fashion

Traditional textiles of Asia -

Central Asian styles of dress are as various as the ethnic origins of the people.

Tribal groups living in remote valleys or travelling the desert wear distinctive costumes, often richly decorated with embroidery and amulets, and gathered or stitched with many gussets to give fullness and freedom of movement.

The dress of villagers and urban dwellers, the Turkmen, Uzbek, Tadjik, Sarts and Jews, is more uniform in cut, but not less varied in embellishment, colour and weave of cloth, according to the wearers ethnicgroup, religion and status.

Full drawstring trousers tapering to the ankle orginated in Central Asia as a pratical garment to wear on horseback, and are worn by both sexes.