In some parts of the Punjab region, men also wear the Punjabi suit. It is made up of a kurta or kameez and a straight cut salwar. The Salwar is the traditional dress of women in the Punjab region. Various types of dresses are worn based on different Punjabi festivals, local events and ceremonies.Īlong with different traditional dresses special types of ornaments are also very common. This cotton industry added to the richness of Punjabi clothing which exhibits Punjab's rich and vibrant culture in its dresses. The Punjab region had a flourishing industry in cotton during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when various kinds of coarse cotton cloths including lungi, khes, datahi, chadders, coasting, shirting, curtains, susi, tehmats, durris, towels, dusters, patkas were manufactured in Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Peshawar, Lahore, Multan, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jhang, Shahpur, Jalandhar, Delhi, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Karnal, Rewari, Panipat etc.
Modern Punjabi dress has retained this outfit but over its long history has added other forms of dress. Both sexes wore a dhoti around the waist. A large sheet would be further draped over one shoulder which would hang loose towards the knees. A scarf was worn over the tops which would be draped over the left shoulder and under the right. The tops lied till knees for both the genders. In the ancient Punjab region, people wore cotton clothing.
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