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Tibetan cavalry also protected their horses's bodies with thin leather armor and their heads with thick iron plates. The most common form of Tibetan armor was lamellar armor called byang bu'i khrab, which was created by overlapping squares of force-absorbing material. [2]
A chuba (Tibetan: ཕྱུ་པ, Wylie: phyu pa, THL: Chuwa, ultimately from Arabic: جبّة, romanized: jubba) is a warm ankle-length unisex robe bound around the waist by a long sash worn by many of high-altitude nomadic pastoralists in the Himalayas. Its upper portion becomes a large pocket for everything from money to bowls.
Pages in category "Tibetan clothing" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Chuba; K. Khata;
Padam men wear different varieties of clothes and costumes. Traditional clothing for men includes red, blue, brown or black coats with various designs & patterns mostly Tibetan manufactured and a cotton cloth on the bottom, varieties of bamboo helmets decorated with boar teeth, bear hairs or red-dyed yak tails, and naturally colored stones worn ...
The Kho (Tibetan: ཁོ, THL: kho) or Bakhu (Nepali: बख्खु) is the traditional dress worn by the Bhutias, an ethnic group native to the Indian state of Sikkim. It is a loose, cloak like garment that is fastened at the neck on one side and near the waist with a silk or cotton belt similar to the Tibetan chuba and the Mongolian Deel.
Tibetans tend to be conservative in their dress, and though some have taken to wearing Western clothes, traditional styles still abound. Women wear dark-colored wrap dresses over a blouse, and a colorfully striped, woven wool apron, called pangden signals that she is married. Men and women both wear long sleeves even in summer months.
The antarvāsa is the inner robe covering the lower body. It is the undergarment that flows underneath the other layers of clothing. It has a large top, and almost entirely covers the torso. In representations of the Buddha, the bottom of the antarvāsa usually protrudes, and appears in the rough shape of a triangle.
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.