shalwar-kameez

Hasan was wearing the shalwar-kameez, the traditional attire worn by Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border.

Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010

High risk inmates wear long orange shirts, similar in style to the traditional shalwar-kameez worn by many in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Car Bomb Hits Outside NATO Base In Kandahar 2010

Hasan was wearing the shalwar-kameez, the traditional attire worn by Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border.

Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010

We rang the doorbell, were buzzed in and were greeted by the ambassador, a textbook Talib, heavily bearded and turbaned, and dressed in Afghan shalwar-kameez and waistcoat.

The Moderate Taliban??? GayandRight 2009

Now, most Bengali women wear shalwar-kameez or the saree: these are the traditional outfits.

A Bangladeshi Bluestocking 2009

No sooner had she been promoted than she made it mandatory for all women to wear a saree, and never shalwar-kameez!

Of skirts and scarves 2007

Yet nationalism plays a role among the elite: and its puerile manifestation can be seen in such contests as that between the saree and the shalwar-kameez (Bangladesh is still a long way from the mini-skirt, which I first saw in Istanbul en route to London in 1970).

Of skirts and scarves 2007

Holy Cross School, run by a different order of nuns, and Viqaroonnessa Noon School, a local school, have sensible policies in this regard: uniforms for girls consist of shalwar-kameez, for no one, not even nationalists, expect young girls to wear a saree.

Of skirts and scarves 2007

The Islamists resent the saree, which, they aver, reveals too much and is the dress worn across the border by Hindu women; the nationalists deplore the shalwar-kameez, which is worn by the Muslim state of Pakistan, from which we broke away: respect for the saree is all of a piece with respect for Bengali, which is spoken in Indian West Bengal, where women wear the saree.

Of skirts and scarves 2007

In black silk, black leather, black velvet and fine black wool, they came cropped to the knee; culotte-style and pleated; as jumpsuits; tucked into boots; cuffed at the ankle; worn long and skinny under split, wrap skirts; cut scissor-sharp, with raw-edge finishes; ruched-up the calves in the manner of the shalwar-kameez; or accessorised with pocketed-belts.

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