Traditional Clothing

A blog dedicated to showing traditional clothing from around the world. Looking for something specific?

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Armenian woman

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By Thunder Voice Eagle

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Chechen women in traditional dress

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Zapotec Indigenous women from Tehuantepec wearing their traditional headdress. The Tehuana-style of clothes was popularized by Mexican icon Frida Kahlo.

Location:  Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

Photographer: Diego Huerta

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A Libyan woman dressed in her country’s traditional outfit takes part in the National Day Festival in the capital Tripoli, Libya, March 13, 2016

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for angela and gloria and

assata and leila and

marsha and yuri and 

the countless unnamed

for the women I was taught not to remember

(a work in progress plz send suggestions this way)

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Today We Reflect On Flint, Michigan February 2016

Siblings Julie, Antonio, and India Abram collect their daily allowance of bottled water from Fire Station #3. Located on Martin Luther King Avenue, it is one of five firehouses that have become water resource sites in Flint, Michigan. via NAT GEO

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The Thousand Hand Bodhisattva Dance

Performed by China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe, the Thousand Hand dance is a portrayal of Guan Yin (Chinese: 觀音菩薩), an East Asian spiritual figure of mercy, the Goddess of Mercy, and a bodhisattva associated with compassion.

The thousand hands represent Guan Yin’s many abilities to render assistance. There are a thousand eyes on these hands which give her great powers to observe the world.  Guan Yin also has many faces so she can become who people need her to be, not necessarily herself, because her help is given in a way that is literally selfless.

All members of the dance troupe are hearing impaired.

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Amazigh women 

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Libyan Jewish Women

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Marrakech (Morocco)

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[VIDEO: From Northbeat: Last week in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, about 20 women took part in revitalizing the Inuit custom of women’s tattoos, a practice that was forbidden by Christian missionaries a century ago.]

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'This is so powerful:' Kitikmeot women revive traditional Inuit tattoos

Last week in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, about 20 women took part in revitalizing the Inuit custom of women’s tattoos, a practice that was forbidden by Christian missionaries a century ago.

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A Syrian Jewish woman from Damascus, Syria. 1889.

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Iranian president Hassan Rouhani was welcomed to the north western Iranian city of Urmia, one of the most multi-cultural cities in iran, by 5 girls from different ethnicities who live in Urmia. 

Azeri, Kurdish, Persian, Assyrian and Armenian. Each girl said welcome to him in their native tongue. 

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Hawaii Residents Honor Orlando With A Mile-Long 'Lei Of Aloha'

The hand-woven gift contains 49 shells, each inscribed with the name of a victim who died in this month's massacre.

The hand-woven gift contains 49 shells, each inscribed with the name of a victim who died in this month’s massacre.

Hawaii may be thousands of miles away, but the islands have touched those affected by the Orlando massacre with the spirit of aloha.

A group of volunteers from the island of Maui flew to the Florida city on Wednesday to honor the 49 victims of a gay nightclub shooting and help the city heal with a mile-long “Lei of Aloha.”

The lei was so large, they had to divide it into three sections and deliver it to three separate memorials, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

The group laid one lei in front of Pulse nightclub to honor the victims who died there. They presented another section to the Orlando Regional Medical Center, in support of medical professionals and the wounded who are in their care. The last section of the lei was displayed at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

Each one “represents joy, love, and healing and peace,” Lehua Kekehuna, a Hawaii representative, told WKMG Orlando. “That’s what we’re hoping it will do for everyone here.”

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400 DAPL protesters ‘trapped on bridge’ as police fire tear gas, water cannon (VIDEO)

Officers have deployed water cannon on the protesters in below-freezing temperatures, and are using LRAD sound devices. Earlier, there were reports of rubber bullets fired. Vehicles which appear to be armored humvees have arrived at the scene…