Is Omani Traditional Dress that shameful??

[lived alone]

HUH !!!!

What a title !!!

Well, this what is noticeable in some Willayat and areas in Oman
where Omani women dress is appears only on occasions like
weddings, Eids or parties.

Knowing that our mothers and grandmother use to wear this dress
freely without any emarrasment but now you only can see it in some
areas like Salalah or Sharqiyah regien ( correct me if I am mistaken)


The redicilus of matter is girls are despise and dont respect guys
who dont wear Omani Dishdasha where they are themselves are
away from the traditional dress, is it right?

Let us highlight some of the negatives and defects of Women
Traditional Dress which make girls feel shy to wear it as our
mother/grandmothers were doing

At the end let me give you an example of some nations who still
preserve their identity from their traditional dress

Indian & Sudanese ladies ; wherever they go and live they wear
their national dress and people could I.D. them from it

[mindfreak]

saying omani girls are doomed to the traditional clothes and they cant change it ... ????

they are not ashamed as you said, they are proud of it , thats why they wear the best for the special occasions.. which the omani tradtional clothes..

totally disagree..

[MuSaFiR]

even in Eid they rarely wear it, they prefer to follow the latest fashion
well i cant think of a clear reason why they dont although i find it very attractive lets leave it for them

and yes now u should edit ur signature from "i Love Sudan" to " I love sudan and India"

[wandoO]

the traditional Omani dress, of all regions mostly, isnt that practical, means you cant wear it at any time. umm so the appropriate time to wear it is in the very special occasions =)

[Elvira]

Hmmm nice topic
But i would like that before any one judge that women don’t wear it out of shame to try and wear it just for 1 hour and see what they will feel
Its not easy walking around with it, go to Matrah and ask the price of Omani dress, no matter from what region, its really expensive and the reason is obvious, those dress take long to work on them, making sure the embroidery is perfect and the beads stay in place
Now yea our mothers and grandmothers used to wear it, and they got used to it, coz they wore it since they were young
But when they brought us they dressed us up the modern style coz they want the best and whats easy for us
How do u want us to go from a simple skirt, that is light and practical to a heavy gown like that, some even walk around with a tails behind them
Not only that our mothers wanted to make it easy on us, but our dad let them knowing its the best for us too
So why are we to blame if we got used to dressing up easy?!

[FaNcY FlOWeR]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة mindfreak

saying omani girls are doomed to the traditional clothes and they cant change it ... ????

they are not ashamed as you said, they are proud of it , thats why they wear the best for the special occasions.. which the omani tradtional clothes..

totally disagree..

[Life Storm]

Hey brother

Lovely topic indeed

Let it be sticky for a while and hold the discussion among us..
We probably may get some solutions for the certain denials
against our traditional dresses..

Have a nice day

[Amithoscutaus]

I guess it's a group of factors that resulted in not embracing our national dress as an everyday "thing": Maybe it looks too formal or that it attracts too much attention. Or maybe 'cause no one made the effort to find a way to mass produce the dress, the dress takes more time effort and money to make compared to the abaya. Maybe there isn't an Omani role model, who wears the national dress, for the girls to look up to so that they would feel more confidant wearing it .... etc

I can't see our national dresses ever becoming a daily thing. But at least it could be "enforced" or be named a formal dress for all formal occasions.

[Wissal]

This dress are too beautiful

But if there look like on the picture, I find it too attractive by their colours and motif to go out with this clothes.

And I agree with who said that it's not pratical for the daily work,...
It's more appropriate for a celebration, a family party,....

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة mindfreak

saying omani girls are doomed to the traditional clothes and they cant change it ... ????

they are not ashamed as you said, they are proud of it , thats why they wear the best for the special occasions.. which the omani tradtional clothes..

totally disagree..

Same logic here , when you are proud of something you feel that you want to appear with it and keep it attached with you 24/7 , not only remembering it on certain occasions

However, our dress is part of our identity, we should be proud of it

BTW, I forgot to mentions that Baluchi ladies are very good examples of keeping their traditional dress alive

here we go

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة MuSaFiR

even in Eid they rarely wear it, they prefer to follow the latest fashion
well i cant think of a clear reason why they dont although i find it very attractive lets leave it for them

and yes now u should edit ur signature from "i Love Sudan" to " I love sudan and India"

Some ladies say: Omani dress is short that was for a certain time, today if we wear it in public people it will attract people's eyes to us

We cover ourselves with black from head to toe , still we are not safe of them , so imagine us with short dress like Omani one , that would be awful

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة wandoO

the traditional Omani dress, of all regions mostly, isnt that practical, means you cant wear it at any time. umm so the appropriate time to wear it is in the very special occasions =)

Omani dress is like any dress in the world subject to change
according to time, in other words ladies can change it to be
practical and appropriate to wear anytime

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Elvira

Hmmm nice topic
But i would like that before any one judge that women don’t wear it out of shame to try and wear it just for 1 hour and see what they will feel
Its not easy walking around with it, go to Matrah and ask the price of Omani dress, no matter from what region, its really expensive and the reason is obvious, those dress take long to work on them, making sure the embroidery is perfect and the beads stay in place
Now yea our mothers and grandmothers used to wear it, and they got used to it, coz they wore it since they were young
But when they brought us they dressed us up the modern style coz they want the best and whats easy for us
How do u want us to go from a simple skirt, that is light and practical to a heavy gown like that, some even walk around with a tails behind them
Not only that our mothers wanted to make it easy on us, but our dad let them knowing its the best for us too
So why are we to blame if we got used to dressing up easy?!

Thank you for what you said and note what I have marked in red is
confirming what is said at the beginning. "feeling shame" is ONE
of the reasons why do girls dont like Omani traditional dress

Let us go to the second point: Price

Do you compare our financial statue now as the same as it was 20 years ago ?
Remember this dress was expensive to them exactly like us now if
you compare the income of the family before and now, so it is the
same

Third one you said : "HEAVY GOWN"it that it maybe thick and dont
feel free to walk with it >>> I cant really understand it but l dont think
women who still wearing the traditional Omani dress would have the
same reason to say

BTW nobody replied me on what I have asked here

أرسل أصلا بواسطة lived alone

girls are despise and dont respect guys
who dont wear Omani Dishdasha where they are themselves are
away from the traditional dress, is it right?

Since girls look for simple things , guys do that too. Why not to wear
SIMPLE & PRACTICAL shirts and trousers to walk in free? Why have
they to hear acid comments condemn their dress ?

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Life Storm

Hey brother

Lovely topic indeed

Let it be sticky for a while and hold the discussion among us..
We probably may get some solutions for the certain denials
against our traditional dresses..

Have a nice day

Salam to our Moderator

Its my pleasures to see your comments here and I really want to
reach to one important point here at the end of the discussions
wishing your interaction in this topic

[FaNcY FlOWeR]

honestly


first time i knw omani girls r shy of the traditional cloths

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Amithoscutaus

I guess it's a group of factors that resulted in not embracing our national dress as an everyday "thing": Maybe it looks too formal or that it attracts too much attention. Or maybe 'cause no one made the effort to find a way to mass produce the dress, the dress takes more time effort and money to make compared to the abaya. Maybe there isn't an Omani role model, who wears the national dress, for the girls to look up to so that they would feel more confidant wearing it .... etc

I can't see our national dresses ever becoming a daily thing. But at least it could be "enforced" or be named a formal dress for all formal occasions.

Frankly, when it comes to dress ladies are very careful about
elegance and select materials and dresses carefully because
they want to look best of best and distinguished from other ladies.

Concept of elegance now changes starting from fashion shows to
style magazines offer latest models of cloths. Girls spend money
like hell to design a dress but at the end of that she covers that with
BLACK ABAYAH , exactly like that guy who spend 20 Rials to style
his hear in Barber shop then wears Musar on his head.

They talk about expenses and prices where the prices of those
models are more than Omani dress

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة FaNcY FlOWeR

honestly


first time i knw omani girls r shy of the traditional cloths

This what some members try to say it too , and it is true

Here

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Elvira

like that, some even walk around with a tails behind them

And here

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Amithoscutaus

it attracts too much attention.

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Wissal

This dress are too beautiful

But if there look like on the picture, I find it too attractive by their colours and motif to go out with this clothes.

And I agree with who said that it's not pratical for the daily work,...
It's more appropriate for a celebration, a family party,....

I will show you some more then

Have you seen how Omani dress is flexible , easy to manage and changeable?

Let us back to the term frequently came in this topic

PRACTICAL

from which aspect ? Money ??

I dont think this a big deal as there is not that big difference between modern (Western) one and local one, am I right ?

[Wissal]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة lived alone

I will show you some more then

Have you seen how Omani dress is flexible , easy to manage and changeable?

Let us back to the term frequently came in this topic

PRACTICAL

from which aspect ? Money ??

I dont think this a big deal as there is not that big difference between modern (Western) one and local one, am I right ?

Waww, how could we be shamed of this beautiful dress
How much does it cost something like this?

For me the pratical aspect is more about the confort; I don't like to be unconfortable in my movements. It means that the dress don't have to be too long trainant on the ground;the sleeves too wide and sloping,.....for a clothes that I've to dress daily.

But I'm sure that we could adapt this traditional dress as to have a max of confort

Thanks for the photos

[FaNcY FlOWeR]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة lived alone

I will show you some more then

Have you seen how Omani dress is flexible , easy to manage and changeable?

Let us back to the term frequently came in this topic

PRACTICAL

from which aspect ? Money ??

I dont think this a big deal as there is not that big difference between modern (Western) one and local one, am I right ?

and you want us to ware those as an everyday dress...Mister !!!

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Wissal

Waww, how could we be shamed of this beautiful dress
How much does it cost something like this?

For me the pratical aspect is more about the confort; I don't like to be unconfortable in my movements. It means that the dress don't have to be too long trainant on the ground;the sleeves too wide and sloping,.....for a clothes that I've to dress daily.

But I'm sure that we could adapt this traditional dress as to have a max of confort

Thanks for the photos

This your opinion but I dont see it logical reason to abandon National dress and wear it only on occasions

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[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة FaNcY FlOWeR

and you want us to wear those as an everyday dress...Mister !!!

What is the harm in that ?!!!

[FaNcY FlOWeR]

why dont u ware a "bisht" and "khanjar" everyday u go to work

they sound really fancy ^-^

[lived alone]

G

Is this considered to be like Bisht & Dagger for us????

OK

We at least keep our identity even in the area we live. People could
identify me by my Cap & Dishdasha

I dont tell you to be fully designed with jewelry and gold as it appears
in pictures but I speak about Traditional dress where some of
Willayat's women are still wearing it , they dont say that this dress is
not practical or costy or even shameful

[FaNcY FlOWeR]

so abayas are not considered as a traditional cloths I assume..

[Wissal]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة FaNcY FlOWeR

so abayas are not considered as a traditional cloths I assume..

I suppose that abayas are considered as a coat, which is weared on the traditional dress
Or maybe Lived Alone speaks about wearing traditional dress alone

Hé FancyFlower: how does it cost a clothes like this

[lived alone]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة FaNcY FlOWeR

so abayas are not considered as a traditional cloths I assume..

Abayas are worn in every corner of the world. It is not an Omani privacy

[Elvira]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة lived alone

Thank you for what you said and note what I have marked in red is
confirming what is said at the beginning. "feeling shame" is ONE
of the reasons why do girls dont like Omani traditional dress

no that is not what i mean
what i am saying is that shame has nothing to do with it

Let us go to the second point: Price

Do you compare our financial statue now as the same as it was 20 years ago ?
Remember this dress was expensive to them exactly like us now if
you compare the income of the family before and now, so it is the
same

i am not sure why u took it this way
i dont know about other ppl
but in my family my grandmother used to stitch her own dress
yes it used to take long, but it was not expensive, now when my grandmother goz and buy those dresses she says that we used to pay very lil for all this
why did the price go up more 4 times the price b4

Third one you said : "HEAVY GOWN"it that it maybe thick and dont
feel free to walk with it >>> I cant really understand it but l dont think
women who still wearing the traditional Omani dress would have the
same reason to say

BTW nobody replied me on what I have asked here

let me make it more clear
if i am used to wear scarfs, then i find no prob at all wearing it and i will tell others that it is very easy
however if i am not used to wear it
then wearing it willl for sure become tough
point is who ever is already wearing them will not know how it feels to change and start wearing them all of a sudden
so it might be easy or them
but not for us

Since girls look for simple things , guys do that too. Why not to wear
SIMPLE & PRACTICAL shirts and trousers to walk in free? Why have
they to hear acid comments condemn their dress ?

tht is true
i think man with Dishdasha are good looking and (shakh9ya)

and to me, if i was a man. i think its easy to wear dishdasha more then wearing anything else
that is what i thnk

but i also think that if a guy likes his wife to wear omani dresses they he can ask her to wear it
if my husband wants me to wear that type of dresses i will say ok
i will take him to the suq and ask him to pay for it
its only like 60-150 rials
and we cant buy one. i need few of them every now and then
so every month he can keep 100 rials only for that
and i will wear them every day

i will just tell him that the other dresses which i normally wear is about 30 rials max
the skirt, top, and scarf to go with it

so he can make a choice

my point is i dont think that we can compare what women wear and what man wear, i think 3abaya is a decent clothing
so why the big deal out of wearing it

[FaNcY FlOWeR]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة Wissal

I suppose that abayas are considered as a coat, which is weared on the traditional dress
Or maybe Lived Alone speaks about wearing traditional dress alone

Hé FancyFlower: how does it cost a clothes like this

no idea myself...it could cost a fortune

[Wissal]

أرسل أصلا بواسطة FaNcY FlOWeR

no idea myself...it could cost a fortune

I'm certainly not fortuned to buy one
I was watching today a fashion show with omani dress like these on the pictures!! And now, I believe that it's possible to wear it daily because some of them are very practical as the western dress ( pants with not too long shirt)