Azerbaijani traditional clothing

National outerwear for men consists of a ust koyney (shirt) or Chepken, Arkhalig, Gaba, Chukha and Kurk.

writes about Azerbaijani male costume:[2][further explanation needed] Underwear consists of straight and short shirts of coarse calico, white and mostly dark blue colours with underpants of this very material, which are fastened with tapes on the waist; in winter they are worn over woolen large pants, which are also fastened with tapes.

Chukha is worn over arkhalig with a short waist and with a skirt with a length of below knees, but the head is covered with a small conic shaped hat made of lamb fur, throughout the year.

It includes chadra – a suck-formed[clarification needed] shawl – and rubend, a veil that was worn by women when outdoors.

Women's outerwear was made of bright and colourful textiles, the quality of which depended on the wealth of the individual or her family.

The clothing also included jewellery such as golden and silver beads, buttons stylised as hordeum seeds, coins, delicate pendants and necklaces.

Women also wore a knitted shirt with long sleeves (arkhalig, kulaja) that fitted tightly across the back and chest, and had a wide slit at the front.

[6] Women of Karabakh wore a tight-fitting chepken (chafken) to the waist and with long, hidden sleeves.