Lebanese Folk Dress
The traditional dress of a lebanese man and woman.
Lebanese folk dress. Lebanese women use tie dyeing of the fabric for their clothing. Depending on the region food words dialect and dress changes. Baalbeck hundreds of photos from lebanon showing everything from houses to nature to cedars etc. Post 225 365 there is something quiet poetic about the lebanese landscape and how it is integrated in every aspect of our lives.
Even today colorful embroidered sleeves are sold separately from dresses. The sherwal is the existing traditional costume and survival of lebanon is the most common and practical garment between the villagers and the people of the mountain. Dress was historically ottoman but remains only as part of the folk culture. Often females tied the sleeves at the back during dinner or another activity to keep them clean and allowed them to swing during dancing.
The photo was made in 1880. Nov 20 2011 1 01 am. Nov 23 2011 12 00 am. Today almost all lebanese wear modern clothing.
Jan 8 2015 explore amy perrotti s board lebanese traditional dress followed by 168 people on pinterest. For example young muslim women tend to eschew the traditional abaya or the long sleeved dress decorated with stitching beads and sequins for modern alternatives such as jeans and long sleeved tops. Thanks for the. Plan to marry with my boyfriend lebanese next year seems easier for me now.
Different religions and areas all have slightly different undertones to their dress and way of life yet somehow they all seem to mesh. Like anywhere in the world wedding dress codes in lebanon are determined by an undefined mix of religion culture location and hard to pinpoint social factors. Famous names in the lebanese fashion industry include elie saab zuhair murad darin hachem reem acra and rabih kayrouz. Lebanese bride in traditional outfit.
Women wear long dresses while the men wear baggy trousers and colorful jackets. Lebanese culture is one of the most diverse cultures in the arab region. Jul 10 2014 lebanon photos. In the rural communities the traditional mode of dressing is still observed.
The people of lebanon also use labbade an old cap that could be worn as long ago as the phoenician period. And now how to dress for a lebanese wedding. The country has a rich culture which is mainly borrowed from different groups of people. Lebanese muslims are generally more liberal in their attitude to dress than in most other middle eastern countries.
Read the invitation then read between the lines timing and venue are the two biggest dress code clues.