Clothing Styles of Maldivians

Clothing Styles Belong to Maldivians 

dress styles in Maldivians

Fashion Styles in Maldivians  

Clothing Style	Fabric Types	Clothing Silhouettes	Accessories	Colours
·         Frocks (Giraavaru women’s)	Cotton, cotton blending, silk based modern fashion	H- Line and X-line silhouettes, long sleeves or elbow, collar less v- shaped or round neck.	Sometimes head covers, necklace, some embroidery decorations , sometimes small zippers	Neck area commonly white others have unicolour such red or yellow or blue colour.
·         Dhivehi Libaas (For women)	Cotton and cotton blending, silk based modern	H- line and X-line silhouettes, long sleeves and v- shaped or round and collar less necks	Necklace, embroidery designs can be seen on dress, sometimes zippers,	Neck area commonly white others have unicolour such red or yellow or blue colour. Bottom of skirt area has black and white horizontal lines.
·         Shirt and Pareo ( For men’ wear)	Cotton and cotton/ polyester shirt and mostly used cotton or silk pareo	H - Line silhouettes can be seen. Shirts are long and short sleeves pareo like sarong or rob style.	Buttons for shirts, interlining for shirt collars and sometimes belts are used to keep pareo	Formal shirts are white but different unicolor types cab be seen, pareo are design simple square colour designs such as brown, black, green etc.