Woman's embroidered cotton dress, Pakistan, 20th century.

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Place of origin:North-West Frontier Province

Height: 90 cm, Width: 182 cm across sleeves

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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Woman's embroidered cotton dress, Pakistan, 20th century.

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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