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Bhutanese boys wearing gho at a festival in Punakha, November 2006 Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan, wearing a gho and royal saffron kabney. The gho or g'ô (Dzongkha: བགོ་, Dzongkha pronunciation:) [1] is the traditional and national dress for men in Bhutan.
Bhutanese girls wearing kira and toego Bhutanese women wearing kiras. The kira (Dzongkha: དཀྱི་ར་, དཀྱིས་རས་, romanized: dkyi-ra, dkyis-ras) [1] is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric.
Kera is a women's garment worn with traditional Bhutanese attire. Women wear it with a skirt-type garment called Kira, while men also use it as a belt with a knee-length robe called Gho. [1] Kera is folded several times in the warp direction and secured around the waist by tucking in the long warp fringe at one end.
Bhutanese women wearing kira with tego. A toego or tego (Dzongkha: སྟོད་གོ་, Wylie: stod go; also romanised tögo) is a long-sleeved, short jacket-like garment worn over a kira by women in Bhutan.
Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographical isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely populated country bordered by India to the south, and China to the north, Bhutan has long maintained a policy of strict isolationism, both culturally and economically, with the goal of preserving its cultural heritage and independence.
The GMC is set to occupy 2.5% of Bhutan’s total landmass, which is currently inhabited by some 10,000 people, mostly farmers, who already rate the lowest in Bhutan’s GNH surveys, with only 33% ...
The use of gho and kabney is encouraged in Bhutan as a part of driglam namzha (or driklam namzhak), the official code of etiquette and dress code of Bhutan. Gho is compulsory for schoolboys and government officials. [1] [2] The female traditional dress is called kira; a rachu is worn over the traditional dress kira. [1] [3]
Bhutanese girls wearing kira with wonju visible A wonju ( Dzongkha : འོན་འཇུ་; Wylie : 'on-'ju ) [ 1 ] is a long-sleeved blouse worn by women in Bhutan . Made of silk, polyester, or lightweight cotton, it is worn underneath the Kira , part of the national costume under the driglam namzha .