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Salwar kameez (also spelled shalwar kameez or shalwar qameez) is a traditional dress worn by both women and men in Southern Asia. Salvars or shalvars are loose pajama-like trousers. The legs are wide at the top, and narrow at the bottom. The kameez is a long shirt or tunic. The side seams (known as the chaak) are left open below the waist-line, which gives the wearer greater freedom of movement. It is the most common dress for men in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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  • In my salwar suit

    A modern-style shalwar kameez in India.

  • Inside The Old Terminal Of Kabul International Airport

    Men wearing shalwar kameez at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan.

  • Salwar pajama pants worn

    Shalwar (with Kabuli sandals)

  • Salwar pajama pants

    Shalwar

  • Selcuk woman edit

    A woman in Selçuk, Turkey wearing traditional Turkish trousers similar to a salwar.

  • TilkeSalwar

    Shalwar kameez, from Max Tilke's Oriental Costume, 1922

  • Pakistani dress

    Children in shalwar kameez

  • Men in shalwar kameez on the road to Kalash, Pakistan

    Men dressed in shalwar kameez on the road to Kalash valleys, Chitral, Pakistan

  • Schoolgirls in Shalwar Kameez, Abbotabad Pakistan - UK International Development

    Schoolgirls in shalwar kameez and headscarves, Abbotabad, Pakistan

  • Priyanka Chopra walks for Manish Malhotra & Shaina NC's show for CPAA 02

    Priyanka Chopra modeling an Anarkali suit

  • Clothing worn by most Pashtun males

    Perahan tunban worn by most Pashtun males in Afghanistan and Pakistan

  • Afghan Uniformed Police officer Noor Haya talks with an elder outside the district center in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Sept 110918-A-VB845-368

    Man in Afghan clothing: perahan tunban

  • Afghan kids wearing traditional clothes in Kabul

    Afghan kids wearing traditional clothes in Kabul

  • A Loyal Afghan WDL11457

    Traditional Khet partug (traditional loose Peshawari shalwar)

  • Quetta.1867

    Balochi male shalwar kameez, Quetta, 1867

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    Traditional Balochi suits

  • Tribal Elders, April 1896

    Tribal elders, April 1896

  • Balochi traditional dress

    Balochi traditional dress

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    Baluchi dress

  • Balochi embroidery

    Balochi embroidery

  • Traditional Balouchi Dresses

    Traditional Balochi dresses

  • A lady at srinagar

    Left and right: phiran shalwar; centre: Punjabi suits

  • Bihar girl in Kashmiri dress

    Kashmiri phiran

  • Traditinal winter dress of kashmir

    A man from Srinagar wearing phiran

  • Kashmiri Muslim women in traditional long Phiran 1870

    Kashmiri women in traditional long phiran 1870

  • KashmirPundit1895BritishLibrary

    Kashmiri Pandits in phiran and pajama

  • Men in Kashmiri Phiran and Poots 1875

    Men in Kashmiri phiran and poots, 1875

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    Punjabi Shalwar kameez

  • Women of Puducherry

    Women in Punjabi suits

  • MissPooja2

    Miss Pooja of the Punjab region in a Punjabi suit

  • Shalvaar qamiz

    Men's Punjabi Shalwaar qamiz

  • Christian Girls Arriving at School, Jammu, ca.1875-ca.1940 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-047)

    Girls arriving at school, Jammu, ca.1875-ca.1940

  • Picket Line in Pakistan

    Women in ornate shalwars

  • Saraiki Tehreek

    Saraiki Tehreek

  • Rohi's Women Dress

    Rohi (Cholistan) woman's bandhani dress (Punjab, Pakistan)

  • 1st Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop-9

    First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop: women in Punjabi suits

  • Girls wearing patiala salwar

    School girls wearing Patiala salwar suits

  • Nawab Muhammad Of Bawalpur 1868-1900

    Nawab Muhammad of Bahawalpur (1868-1900) wearing a loose Bahawalpuri shalwar

  • Prince Suba Sadiq Abbasi

    Prince Suba Sadiq Abbasi, Bahawalpur

  • Bed Sheets

    Bahawalpur kameez

  • Nawab Sadiq Khan Fifth

    Nawab Sadiq Khan Fifth (died 1966) in the Bahawalpuri shalwar

  • Kuaar Saraiki Fashion 2012

    Saraiki fashion

  • Saraiki Fashion 2012

    Multani/Saraiki shalwar

  • Nihang Singh and Nihang Singhani

    19th-century Punjabi suthan suit worn by the lady on the right

  • Pahari women kashmir3

    Women in Punjabi suthan 1890

  • Market Place, Bikanir 1896. Woman on left in loose Punjabi suthan suit

    Woman on left in loose Punjabi suthan suit

  • Punjabi Sikh woman in Amritsar Punjabi suthan and short kurta 1874

    Punjabi woman in Punjabi suthan and short kurta, 1874

  • GuptaDanceMusic02

    Ancient svasthana and varbana outfit worn during the Gupta Empire, the basis of the Punjabi suthan suit

  • Sepoys of 20th Punjab Infantry and Hunza Gun. 1893. Men in Punjabi tight from knees suthan

    Men in tight Punjabi suthan, 1893

  • Bharatpore maharajah

    The Nawab Muhammad Bahawal Khan Abbasi V Bahadur (1883–1907) of Bahawalpur State in suthan

  • Bertrand Blanchard Acosta in jodhpurs and goggles

    Bertrand Blanchard Acosta in jodhpurs and goggles

  • Dogri play Bawa Jitto directed by Balwant Thakur Produced in 1986 and still going strong

    Men and boys wearing a knee length variation of the Punjabi ghuttana and Dogri kurta. The full suthan is tight from the knees to the ankles, associated with the Punjab region.

  • Punjab Hills 1895. Kulu woman in churidar suthan. Himachal Pradesh

    Punjab Hills 1895, Kulu woman in churidar suthan, Himachal Pradesh

  • Baloch Man in Sindhi traditional pantaloon style 1845

    Man in Sindhi traditional Kancha shalwar.

  • Muslim girl karachi1870

    irl from Karachi, Sindh, in a shalwar and blouse. c. 1870. Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library

  • Man in Sindhi angerkho top (1845)

    Man in Sindhi long angerkho(1845)

  • Muslim girl sind1870

    Woman, in Sind, British India, in Sindhi slim kancha shalwar

  • Hindu girl karachi

    Sindhi girl from Karachi, Sind, in Sindhi cholo and narrow suthan. c. 1870

  • India (Gujarat), man's costume, 1970s-1980s - Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum - DSC05310

    India (Gujarat), man's kediyu suruwal, Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

  • Navratri Garba

    Man on the left in jama and chorno (jama/suruwal)

  • Rrrraas!

    Gujarati men in kediyu

  • Bandhej

    Bandhani prints

  • Bandhani print open

    Bandhani print open

  • Daura Suruwal by Mahalaxmi Silwal

    Photo by Mahalaxmi Silwal; daura suruwal, Nepal's national male dress

  • Photo by Mahalaxmi silwal

    Photo by Mahalaxmi Silwal; man in short daura

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