Preface:
Welcome to chapter II of this ….. !!! It’s not a book so…well welcome to the second part of this series of articles about Yemen.
I've added more pics above for Yemeni People and the last one isn't a picture taken from sana'a it's a pic of a Yemeni village (I know Karin will enjoy them). :)
Chapter II: Dress code in Sana’a and most of the north parts of Yemen
Life in Yemen is different than maybe what most people are used to, Yemeni people are strict about there traditions and every part of Yemen has it’s own traditions and dress code and so on.
Lets talk about Sana’a for example (since I live there, but I’m originally from Hadramoot which I’ll talk about maybe in another chapter), the dress code there is the white Thob, the Ganbiah (dagger), and you can wear a jacket over them, and a scarf (in Yemen they call it Somatah).
I know most people stopped at the (dagger) thing saying “they seem so uncivilized”, so let me explain the “dagger” thing.
1st of all we don’t use it as a weapon a dagger says a lot about the person wearing it, it’s like a car so you have a Mercedes Benz people will know you are rich but if you have a Toyota People will say that you’re doing well, so a dagger is like a social thing not a weapon.
Some dagger can cost a lot they can reach about 1 million dollars!!! (And I’m not joking).
But this dress code isn’t what ALL people wear but it’s like the dress code for most people in the north part of Yemen, the south part for Yemen dress code is entirely different.
3 comments:
Thamood - you're really FANTASTIC!! That is so wonderful and I really love these pictures a LOT!! You are very right .. Karin DOES enjoy them!:):)
So you're saying this dagger is sort of a status-symbol? Wallah, I didn't know that but have to say, they do look VERY impressive - I like them a lot!! Are you serious ... they can cost up to a MILLION DOLLARS??? OMG ... who on earth can afford to buy that??
So - let's say you go to an official meeting, you wear a Thob, a Ganbiah and a Somatah? And casual clothes ... are there as well jeans and T-shirt like here? What about women?
These things do interest me a LOT - just like cultures and traditions fascinate me!
What's the dress-code for the southern part of Yemen?
Thanks a million Thamood ... that is SO GREAT of you and I highly appreciate it!!
yes there jeans and t-shirts here,!!! i'm wearing one now i was talking about the tradtional closth of yemen,not what people were everyday, but people can wear what ever they like some prefer trastional and some likes casual and most meeting these days people wears suites.
thanks for visiting.
Very best site. Keep working. Will return in the near future.
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