Xhamadan

[4] The xhamadan appears to be the jacket to which 16th-century English poet Edmund Spenser refers in a line of his Faerie Queene, published in the 1590s, where he mentions the sleeves-dependent, Albanese wise.

[5] It is mentioned several times by British travel writers, such as John Foster Fraser, who in the first (1906) edition of his book, Pictures from the Balkans, observes the preferences of Albanian men for xhamadans embroidered in gold or silver.

Northern Albanians would usually wear a xhamadan of red velvet, embroidered in black silk or, sometimes, gold.

[3] In particular, the xhamadan worn by Albanians in the region of Tetovo (now North Macedonia), is white, or creamy, and richly embroidered.

[10] The southern Albanian version of the xhamadan for men is no longer red like the northern one, but creamy or dark blue.