What do the Saudis wear on their heads? Why are there white and red, some with black rings and some without?

With a long history, splendid culture and traditional customs of the Arab nation, with the advance of society, the development of science and technology, the penetration of the East and the West and cultural exchanges, the traditional customs of its people have evolved along with the evolution of their aesthetics, wear, live both implied traditional colors and with the breath of the dynasty.

[A] Men's attire

Dressed in a large robe, plus a cloak, headband on the turban, the image of the Arab.

Arab robe is mostly white, wide sleeves, robe length to the foot, simple workmanship, no distinction between inferiority and superiority. It is both the civilian people's casual wear, but also the dress of the dignitaries, the texture of the material with the season and the master of the economic conditions, there are cotton, gauze, wool, nylon velvet and so on.

Loose and comfortable for the characteristics of the Arab robe, but its workmanship and decoration of the district there are slight differences; such as the Saudis robe for the long-sleeved, high collar, inlaid lining. Sudanese robe without collar, chest and sleeve fat, cylindrical, long to the ankle, before and after the pocket pocket, side and waist pocket, can be worn on both sides of the rotation. Array of Man's robe collarless, collar has a about 30 centimeters long rope spike hanging in front of the chest, spike at the bottom of a calyx-shaped openings, can be sprayed to the inside of the perfume, put spices.

Arab robe color in addition to white, but also dark blue, dark gray, dark brown and black. The undergarments of the Arabs are also different from region to region. The top is mostly striped tunic, but also white sweatshirt, many people do not wear underwear in summer. Underwear peculiar, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and other countries popular men wearing skirts and women wearing pants, remote areas of the tribes or poor people only use a piece of cloth to the lower body of a round thing. Libya, Tunisia and other countries, men like to wear fat lantern pants. As Arab men throughout the year, the robe does not leave the body, the style and color of the underwear will not have much opportunity to show.

With the development of society, the Arab countries by the impact of Western culture, but the traditional clothing white robe has not been cold, and is still quite popular. Even if the fashionable young people and public officials, work suits or cowboys, once at home are still changed into a big robe. Heads of state, senior officials dressed in big robes to attend banquets and celebrations are not uncommon. There are some people combined with the foreign, in the robe outside the suit, or suit outside the cloak robe, can be described as a unique style.

The Arab robe has been thousands of years and does not decline, it is it is living in the hot and rainy Arabs have irreplaceable superiority. Life practice has proved that the robe than other styles of clothing more heat protection advantages, whether white or other colors of the robe, in the absorption of external heat at the same time, inside the formation of a ventilator, the air from the bottom to the top of the circulation, as if the chimney, so that the human body to feel cool.

The cloak in the view of the Arabs, is a holiday dress, men in the big robe plus a cloak, look good, manly. Cloak colorful, quality is not the same. Such as Kuwait's cloak market, men's, women's, summer wear transparent yarn cloak, winter wear wool, camel hair, tweed cloak everything; there are civilians to wear cheap ordinary cloak, there are also members of the royal family and the rich with fine workmanship, inlaid with gold and silver silk luxury cloak.

The Arab's turban, is also a product of the desert environment, the role of the hat, summer sunscreen, winter cold and warm. This hijab is a piece of cloth, put it on the head, and then set on a headband fixed. Its color is mostly white, but also other colors. The fabric has the difference between good and bad, thick and thin, depending on the season and conditions.

The headband is made of camel's hair round ring, mostly black, occasionally white, thick and thin light and heavy. Young people like thick and heavy headbands, and then tie a belt, look dashing, handsome.

Some Arab countries, such as Yemen on the peninsula and Mauritania in North Africa, men wrapped around the head of a long white turban, do not wear a headband. Their headscarf in addition to the role of the hat, there are other uses: sleep as a cover, worship as a cushion, wash your face as a towel, buy things as a bag, when the wind in the face to block the wind and sand.

Omani men only wear a turban, do not wear a headband, the color of the turban has a hierarchy, mostly white or plain, the royal family with red, blue and yellow as the base of the special headscarf, other people banned.

Wearing another small white hat under the hijab is a habit of many Arabs. On informal occasions, they prefer to wear only a small white hat without a headscarf. Egypt, Libya, Algeria and other countries, some men do not use the headscarf, do not wear a small white hat, only wear a red or black Turkish-style tall felt hat. Some people love to wrap a white cloth under the felt hat, more colorful and novel.

Peppings, is the Arab tribes have long developed decorative habits, their styles, each with its own style, especially in Yemen and Oman's most characteristic of the belt knife.

Waist knife is initially used for self-defense weapons, and then gradually become a precious ornament and national customs. Arabs feel that only wearing a belt knife, in order to show the man's chivalry, dashing and mighty temperament, do not wear a belt knife man is not a good man. At the same time, wearing a belt knife is also a sign of the boy's manhood. To this day there are still some tribes, when the boy grows to 15 years old to hold a ceremony for him to wear in order to show congratulations.

The making of waist knives has a history of more than 2,000 years in Yemen. There are still workshops in many cities that make knives, both mechanized and handmade, with elaborate and fine workmanship. Most of the knives are double-edged, curved hook shape, the sheath is decorated with a silver ring, with a wide belt or embroidered ribbons with beautiful designs, easy to wear.

In Oman, the belt knife is a symbol of the country, and its design is painted on the coat of arms. The map of the country of Jumman is also shaped like a loincloth.

The hilt of the belt knife is also very elaborate, there are cow horns, goat horns and wooden, the most expensive is made of rhinoceros horn or long strong antlers, with gold and silver inlaid with patterns or scriptures, brilliant, valuable; some also inlaid with the owner of a very, made in the years, passed down from one generation to the next.

Named belt knife, not all sat on people's waists, some are not in the gold and silver color line embroidered on the belt, more inserted in the chest of the special wide belt, whenever they sing and dance, often with the belt knife dance. Waist knife almost never leave the body, such as from the owner of the waist knife, is the owner of the harshest lessons and the biggest insult. Yemeni government regulations, wearing a belt knife people fighting, security officers and tribal sheikhs have the right to seize his belt knife, punished him in a number of days can only take the sheath of the knife out of the house, to inform people that he is suffering. Therefore, at no time should you remove a belt knife from another person's body.

The Mauritanians differ from other Arab countries in that almost everyone carries an amulet, some even several. Amulets are carried in leather pouches. In addition to beautiful jewelry, they are mainly for good luck.

[Two] women's clothing

Head wearing a black veil, wearing a large black robe is the image of Arab women under the provisions of Islam. Arab women's black veil is very thin, wearing a veil, outsiders can not see the owner's face, but the owner can see through the veil with the net as usual. There are a few women wearing double black veil, difficult to see, often need the help of children; some people use a piece of black veil to cover the hair, another piece of the face and mouth, revealing the eyes; some people in the black veil on the opening of one or two small holes, easy to see. The black veil is of different sizes, with the small one covering the head and neck, and the large one covering the head, with the corners hanging down to the chest and even the legs. Most of the women in addition to wearing black veil, inside, but also wear a hat with fine workmanship, inlaid jewelry.

Black robe is the traditional clothing of Arab women, simple workmanship, style and color varies from place to place. For example, the black robe of Saudi women is a wide black cloak.

Yemeni women's clothing style there are two kinds: one is the head of the black veil, will cover the head, and then draped with a piece of black cloth (or lattice cloth) wrapped around the whole body; the other is divided into the head, the upper body and the lower body of the three parts of the head of the black veil up to the neck, the upper body of the black shawl hanging down to the waist, in the chest fastened, the lower body in a black skirt covered to the feet.

Egyptian women's black robe is a rectangular black cloth, that is, the 5-meter-long cloth in two, the two sides sewn together, according to personal preference embroidered lace that is, wear, cloak can be flexible and convenient, but also can be worn at will to expose a part of the body.

Sudanese women love to wear floor-length robes. The robe is a piece of cloth that can be wrapped all over the body, black and white.

Libyan women, when going out, often use a piece of cloth similar to a sheet to wrap the whole body tightly, showing only the eyes.

Arab women look simple, even barefoot, but in fact, they are almost full of all kinds of gold and silver jewelry. Head wearing silver headbands, headbands tied silver chain, forehead hanging gold and silver chain, nose decorated with flowers, earrings and a ring, necklace a circle and a circle, ten fingers wear rings, wrist hanging bracelets, feet decorated with ankle bracelets and foot bell ......, but also very chic, fully revealing the gold wearing silver graceful and luxurious.

Rolling oil wealth has changed this ancient land in the Middle East, changing people's lives and lifestyles, but also changing people's aesthetic sense. Nowadays, the traditional dress of the Arabs in addition to the remote areas still dominate, the big cities have gradually given way to the combination of soil and foreign, East and West style **** the survival of the dress of the new era. Especially the young generation of young men and women like to catch up with the fashionable attire.

The mainstream of Egyptian women's clothing is the expression of female physical beauty, style eclectic. Suits, jackets, suits, pants, dresses, short skirts, jeans, etc., are very popular, the traditional cloak-style robe, but also still people wear.

In Libya, although traditional clothing is still predominant, but young men are often dressed in suits, women are also dressed in suits and dresses, dignified and elegant, appreciate and pursue the "watered-down" Western make-up, rouge, lipstick, lightly smeared, dyed nails, perfume, wear earrings, necklaces and other blunt gold jewelry.

Even in Saudi Arabia, which has the strictest Islamic rules, dress is changing. Women still wear the veil, and the burka remains the same, but the inside of the burka is colorful, with young students wearing jeans and T-shirts, and upper-class women donning dashing suits.