Woman's embroidered cotton dress, Pakistan, 20th century.
Place of origin:North-West Frontier Province
Height: 90 cm, Width: 182 cm across sleeves
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Place of origin:North-West Frontier Province
Height: 90 cm, Width: 182 cm across sleeves
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This cotton dress ('jumlo') with silk embroidery is in the Indus Kohistan style but the embroidery, apart from the added cuffs which are done in cross stitch, is in a surface darn stitch like the Swati shawls and kurtas.
This woman's dress from Northern Pakistan has an astonishing 524 triangular and rectangular panels inserted into the skirt to provide a swirling mass of fabric around the knee-length hemline. The use of prodigious amounts of cloth is also a feature of other types of dress from this region, for example the immensely wide-waisted trousers formerly worn by both men and women. It is not clear whether this taste for extra cloth is a response to the harsh climate in this remote mountainous region or a form of modesty that hides the outlines of the legs.
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