Pakistani girl and boy with flowers, showing off typical shalwar kameez
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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A modern-style shalwar kameez in India.
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Men wearing shalwar kameez at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan.
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A woman in Selçuk, Turkey wearing traditional Turkish trousers similar to a salwar.
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Shalwar kameez, from Max Tilke's Oriental Costume, 1922
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Children in shalwar kameez
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Men dressed in shalwar kameez on the road to Kalash valleys, Chitral, Pakistan
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Schoolgirls in shalwar kameez and headscarves, Abbotabad, Pakistan
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Perahan tunban worn by most Pashtun males in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Man in Afghan clothing: perahan tunban
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Afghan kids wearing traditional clothes in Kabul
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Traditional Khet partug (traditional loose Peshawari shalwar)
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Balochi male shalwar kameez, Quetta, 1867
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Traditional Balochi suits
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Tribal elders, April 1896
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Balochi traditional dress
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Traditional Balochi dresses
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Left and right: phiran shalwar; centre: Punjabi suits
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Kashmiri women in traditional long phiran 1870
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Kashmiri Pandits in phiran and pajama
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Men in Kashmiri phiran and poots, 1875
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Miss Pooja of the Punjab region in a Punjabi suit
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Men's Punjabi Shalwaar qamiz
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Girls arriving at school, Jammu, ca.1875-ca.1940
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Rohi (Cholistan) woman's bandhani dress (Punjab, Pakistan)
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First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop: women in Punjabi suits
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School girls wearing Patiala salwar suits
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Nawab Muhammad of Bahawalpur (1868-1900) wearing a loose Bahawalpuri shalwar
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Prince Suba Sadiq Abbasi, Bahawalpur
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Nawab Sadiq Khan Fifth (died 1966) in the Bahawalpuri shalwar
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19th-century Punjabi suthan suit worn by the lady on the right
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Women in Punjabi suthan 1890
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Woman on left in loose Punjabi suthan suit
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Punjabi woman in Punjabi suthan and short kurta, 1874
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Ancient svasthana and varbana outfit worn during the Gupta Empire, the basis of the Punjabi suthan suit
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Men in tight Punjabi suthan, 1893
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The Nawab Muhammad Bahawal Khan Abbasi V Bahadur (1883–1907) of Bahawalpur State in suthan
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Bertrand Blanchard Acosta in jodhpurs and goggles
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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.
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Man in Sindhi traditional Kancha shalwar.
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irl from Karachi, Sindh, in a shalwar and blouse. c. 1870. Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library
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Man in Sindhi long angerkho(1845)
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Woman, in Sind, British India, in Sindhi slim kancha shalwar
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Sindhi girl from Karachi, Sind, in Sindhi cholo and narrow suthan. c. 1870
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India (Gujarat), man's kediyu suruwal, Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum
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Man on the left in jama and chorno (jama/suruwal)
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Photo by Mahalaxmi Silwal; daura suruwal, Nepal's national male dress
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Photo by Mahalaxmi Silwal; man in short daura