Asia has long been well known as culture imbued with national identity. One of them is the traditional costume. Laos traditional costume has an unique beauty that you should explore while traveling there.
Lao famous women are skilled weavers. When no dyes, Laotians use fruits and roots to dye fabric forest, the girls like to wear calico Laos, who are darker fabrics, bright colors such as forests, fresh flowers. Tours Indochina Laos
Laos traditional costume – source: flickr.com
In daily life, people often use cloths Laos called Pharaoh faction. This is plaid colored scarves elegant fabric, often used as a towel or use head cover, scarves, clothing package tied to the waist … The important festivals, they dressed in ethnic dress round neck shirt, fabric buttons, installed on the left-hand side, wrapped ferry-mock-sticky-pepper colorful and Riding the ferry lazy (towel) across your chest. Ma Lao people in the area used to chit scarves sharp Pieu head, and Laotians in Dien Bien province, then it styled tail Lu people with a towel hanging down one shoulder. When not scattered towels, they love to set the silver sententious very skillfully carved up chignon. If the girl is unmarried, placed between the top bun like Kho Mu, if married, bun lopsided to the left. In particular, on festive occasions, women preferred Laos rings, some with as many arms to every inches thick.
Ethnic cloth of Laos – source: pinterest.com
Youth of Laos are often cut short hair, wearing a round neck, short sleeve, shorts, outer wrap-empty ferry-radiation (long scarf) color or grid. Clothing for women of ethnic female person in Laos known for the use of the product of skillful weavers. They wore high black skirt wrapped chest skirt bears many ornate embroidery. Men usually tattooed the word “universal” in the wrist and often animal tattoo on thigh, whereas women tattooed only in mu Laos hands slender shaped vegetables.
Laos damask – source: tumblr.com
Laos skirt with embroidered border of flowers, birds, dragon jacket with brass or silver buttons on buttons, silver waistband called Khem-stringent along with earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets is the memorabilia that the girl was shopping for parents at an early age.
Modern clothes of Laos – source: baomoi.com
Meanwhile, short blouse with rows of silver buttons are Laotians wearing no different from Thai, while women in the Dien Bien Laos has two rows of buttons before the chest by a blue cloth, on engagement the money line (former French trench copper), like the style of the Kho Mu. And from here, the shirt is attached on both sides of the armpit, each party a red fringed cloth to hang down and set up shaking the particle shape engraved silver fillings picky.
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