Kira (clothes)

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Bhutanese women with Kira
Bhutanese women dancing with Kira and Tego

The Kira ( Bhutanese དཀྱི་ ར་, དཀྱིས་ རས་ Wylie dkyi-ra, dkyis-ras ) is the national dress of women from Bhutan .

The Kira is an ankle-length dress , which consists of an approx. 1.4 m wide and (depending on the person) 2-3 m long woven fabric panel (or several narrow ones that are sewn together). The fabric is wrapped around the body using a special technique and held together with a kera , a woven belt . The fabric is fastened over the shoulders with a brooch ( coma ). A long-sleeved blouse ( wonju ) is worn under the kira and a hip-length jacket ( tego ) is worn over it . Social status is expressed through the patterns, the choice of colors and the decorations on the fabric.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Schicklgruber, Françoise Pommaret-Imaeda (ed.): Bhutan. Mountain Fortress of the Gods . Shambhala, Boston 1998, ISBN 1-57062-352-X , pp. 263 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed on August 21, 2011]).
  2. ^ Bhutanese Traditional Dresses. In: raonline.ch. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kira (dress). In: bhutannica.org. Archived from the original on August 8, 2012 ; accessed on November 9, 2019 .