Municipalité de Tunis - السياحة

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Traditional costume

The traditional female costume is characterized by its variety from one area to another, from one village to another, social layer to another.

The traditional female costume is characterized by its variety from one area to another, from one village to another, social layer to another. However the essential part which constitutes it is the bent “cut” tunic.

Conceived in broad and simple forms, the tunics without handles, are often cut in silk or cotton, wool fabrics….

The characteristic of the various regional costumes is the embroidery whose adopted matter can be the silver wire, the wire gilded, the wire of silk used to decorate the ladies' garments: shirts (Qmajja), waistcoat (farmla), dress (jebba and kadroun), scarf (takrita), cap (qoufiya), handles (kmam), and tunic of marriage.

The male traditional costume has to him also its regional specificities (the kaddroun, the blouse, the bden…), the jebba was essential like national traditional dress, it comprises two has three open or closed waistcoats (bedaia, sedria, fermla), a jacket (mentan), a jodhpurs (seroual), tightened with the size by a broad silk belt. Outside the jebba is supplemented by the port of a burnous which is raised by a special embroidery works of man embroiderers called “Bransia”.