Khyber Pakhtunkhwa clothing

The traditional clothing for the lower region is the khat partug which is a shalwar kameez combination and is worn by men and women.

The khat (also called khattaki or in Marwat Pashtu, kamis)[1] is the shirt which fits closely to the body to the waist and then flares out, either to the knees, or in the case of women, to the ankles.

Perahan tunban or Partoog Kameez is male dress worn in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and eastern Afghanistan.

[10] Further, the traditional perahan/kameez is wide but fits closer to the body down to the waist and then is loose and full down to the knees[11] (thereby flaring out).

[4] The Kabuli pashum is the choga made with the fleece of dumba, fat-tailed sheep of Peshawar and Kabul.

[2] The sharai can also be short and worn with a kammarband (waist band) made of coarse material or leather.

This type of robe is also traditionally worn in the neighbouring Hunza Valley of Gilgit-Baltistan where the garment is referred to as the choga.

This links the region to the Nuristani region in adjoining Afghanistan to its west where men traditionally wore white woollen trousers reaching to just below the knees, supplemented by black tight leggings, covered by a long tunic tied at the waist.

[20] Men of Chitral also wear loose shirts and woollen waistcoats or coats and the Chitrali cap with a sprig of juniper tucked into its brim.

Women's dresses are made with eight to ten yards of black cotton cloth, which is heavily embroidered around the neck, sleeves and bottom with skeins of yarn.

[23] The Chitrali cap is made of fulled woollen cloth, and consists of a flat crown with a rolled brim.

[24] In Bannu[25] and the Hazara area which includes, Mansehra, Abbottabad and Haripur District, the older traditional lower garment is the suthan as worn in the Punjab region.