Tajik clothing

Xinjiang
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Tajik clothing refers to clothing with distinct Tajik ethnic characteristics. The Tajik people mainly live in the cold Pamir Plateau. Their economic life is mainly based on animal husbandry, and they also engage in agriculture, so their clothing is mostly made of fur and felt. After the Qing Dynasty, they used more and more self-woven cloth and imported silk. Both men and women wear red-dyed, long, pointed, soft-soled leather boots and felt socks and wool socks. Strong Tajik youths and old people all have a set of high-quality leather clothes. In summer, in order to adapt to the changeable climate of the mountains, they also wear leather clothes or camel wool coats, white fur hats, and long leather boots with sheepskin uppers and yak leather bottoms. Wearing leather boots, you can walk freely across glaciers and climb snowy mountains. Tajik women have fair skin, are pretty and healthy, and like to wear red or purple and green dresses with lace embroidery. Tajik girls love to wear round hats embroidered with purple, golden, and bright red velvet cloth. The brim of the hat is decorated with floral patterns woven with gold, silver and beads. The front edge of the hat is decorated with a row of colorful beads or small silver chains. The Tajik women, who are known as "people living on the clouds", are not only beautiful, but also have a pair of dexterous hands. Almost all of them are good at embroidery and weaving. The Tajik people's clothes, hats, gloves, belts, wool socks, quilts, wall hangings, flower felts, saddle pads, etc., are all carefully embroidered with various patterns and flowers, which play an important role in beautifying and enriching their lives. They not only pay attention to the decoration of the chest, collar and cuffs of clothes, but also deliberately decorate the back to make the overall coordination of the clothes. Most of the clothes, hats and belts are embroidered with patterns. The front edge of the women's hat is embroidered with colorful patterns, and a row of small silver chains are added to the brim of the hat when they are dressed up. At the same time, they wear earrings, necklaces and various silver chest ornaments. The brides decorate the ends of their braids with silk tassels, and married young women decorate their braids with white buttons. The beautiful decorations make women look like flowers and jade. Tajik men usually like to wear shirts, and black long coats without collars and double-breasted. In winter, they wear plain sheepskin coats. Women like to wear dresses all year round, and coats on cold days. Men wear round high hats made of black flannel and embroidered with patterns. Women wear round embroidered cotton hats, and put on square scarves when going out. The colors are mostly white, and brides must wear red. Both men and women wear long, pointed, soft-soled leather boots and felt socks and wool socks dyed red. The leather boots are made with care, comfortable and warm. The clothes of Tajik women are gorgeous and eye-catching, mostly in red. They like to wear dresses with beautiful patterns embroidered on the hem, collar and cuffs of the skirts. They also like to decorate themselves with earrings, necklaces, bracelets, etc. Their headdresses and hats are also very particular. There is a round flower hat worn by young women that is inlaid with gold and silver pieces and beads, and a row of colorful beads and silver chains are hung on the front of the hat. In Taxkorgan, people can see gorgeously dressed Tajik women everywhere, like fairies descending from the clouds to the earth. Married women are also very attractive in their attire, when they go out, they put on a large headscarf over their hats, and walk into the wind, with the headscarf fluttering in the wind, looking heroic and valiant, with a unique demeanor.

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