What are the ethnic groups which still hold on to their culture of dressing..

[Matemkar]

Salam.

In the city I live, only few old people still hold on to our ancient culture of dressing. Others dress, as they say, "westernized". Let me show you a picture:

The three fellows in the front (performing a folklore) wear as we call "gakkoş" whereas the people in the back and most other people with jeans, trousers and t-shirts and all that dress as what the people here usually call as "modern" and "westernized".

Not more than a few decades ago, things were the opposite. But in any case, now, we can only see the ancient dressing culture through some old people here, or in "çayda çıra" folklore.

So, my question is, is there any ethnic group you are familiar with or that you know of, which did not accept the "modern" dressing style and still hold on to their old culture as a society. Thanks in advance.

 

[Viker]

The only around here I can think of would be the Amish, if they even count as a separate ethnic group outside of their neighbors. Most Native Americans ( American Indians ) use traditional wear for ceremonial reasons, as do a few other groups.

 

[BSM1]

Old hippies.

 

[Iti oj]

I live in America, I see ethnic dressing everyday. Is it so rare by you?

 

[Tiapan]

I think it is great to pull out the old ethnic costumes once a year to celebrate your heritage, but most of the time it is more comfortable to wear thongs and stubbies like the rest of us Australians. It is sad to see that in some suburbs of Melbourne, ethnic wear is permanently common which is fine but it means they have more respect for the culture they have escaped from than the benevolent society they are now part of.

Cheers

 

[Matemkar]

The only around here I can think of would be the Amish, if they even count as a separate ethnic group outside of their neighbors. Most Native Americans ( American Indians ) use traditional wear for ceremonial reasons, as do a few other groups.

I looked up Amish people again. Thanks. Except for their growing beard but no moustache (which is something I usually see in the salafis), I like it. Thanks a lot.

And it is nice that natives use their traditional wear sometimes. Glad to hear it.

I live in America, I see ethnic dressing everyday. Is it so rare by you?

Yes, it is.

I think it is great to pull out the old ethnic costumes once a year to celebrate your heritage, but most of the time it is more comfortable to wear thongs and stubbies like the rest of us Australians.

Agreed. And could you show some examples to your ethnic costumes? Thanks.

 

[Tiapan]

As requested

We Aussies love the sun the beach and the Beer

Typical Traditional Aussie male fashions

Typical Traditional Aussie female fashions

 

[Matemkar]

I was expecting opposite of naughty pictures as traditional wear. It seems I was wrong.

 

[Quintessence]

I shall confess that I bemoan the unimaginative homogenization of attire and that I find the typical Western style of dress pedestrian and painfully boring.

There are days I consider shaking it up. But then would come the judgements, the assumptions, and I don't particularly want to deal with that. I love, for example, the hijab. They are just beautiful. I'm not Muslim, and if I wore one, people would either think I'm Muslim, a poser, or guilty of "cultural misappropriation." If I wore what I actually wanted to wear, people would think that I felt every day was Halloween or something.

 

[Valjean]

Sikh communities in the US often keep traditional dress, and almost always the beards and turbans.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I see traditional dress all the time here, with the Muslims - usually Somali - and Nepalese.

 

[Matemkar]

Sikh communities in the US often keep traditional dress, and almost always the beards and turbans.

I see traditional dress all the time here, with the Muslims - usually Somali - and Nepalese.

Thanks. You guys can show some pictures as well.

P.s. I began to learn more about Tajik, Japanese and Thai traditional clothes as well. And I love them.

 

[Desert Snake]

Theoretically I could dress in sort of 'traditionl attire and it wouldn't look that out of place, though, I have gotten a comment when wearing 'more traditional' looking shirt and pants, even though its just a coincidence. (I wasn't wearing blue jeans.)

 

[Desert Snake]

It depends on the traditional cultural attire in question, of course.

 

[Brinne]

In Japan traditional wear is still worn sometimes. Kimonos are still worn by a lot of women, though like with many countries people are more comfortable with/accustomed to wearing western clothing.

Someone mentioned Sikhs earlier which is another example. It seems that if immigrants carry any kind of ethnic garb over to the West it's usually headgear and hats.

 

[LuisDantas]

The question somewhat puzzles me. What is ethnic garb after all, if not the submission to tradition not of our own choosing?

Complaining that people take such submission to its next logical step seems a bit strange to me.

 

[Tiapan]

I was expecting opposite of naughty pictures as traditional wear. It seems I was wrong.

I have had the respect to look at your native dress, so please have the courtesy to respect our native dress, as seriously in summer this IS how we DO dress. It is insulting for you to call them "naughty" this smacks of sexual repression, to me they are gorgeous, they are completely normal at any Australian beach in summer. It IS our traditional costume. We worship sun, sea and surf (and beer).

If I were to go back even further to the traditional dress of our indigenous countrymen, then you would be even more shocked as they were completely naked. It is all relative.

Cheers

 

[Matemkar]

I get it. Sorry.

 

[MD]

Almost all Indian women wear Saris and Shalwar Kameez. Almost all Indian men wear some variant of the Kurta/pyjama. That's over a billion people who hold on to their cultural dress.

 

[At The Left Hand ov God]

I come from a german family that lived in a very german community.

Tracht