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The gho or g'ô ( dz, བགོ, ) is the traditional and national dress for men in Daily Bhutan
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The gho or g'ô ( dz, བགོ, ) is the traditional and national dress for men in Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
. Introduced in the 17th century by Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, to give the Ngalop people
The Ngalop ( dz, སྔལོངཔ་ ; "earliest risen people" or "first converted people" according to folk etymology) are people of Tibetan origin who migrated to Bhutan as early as the ninth century. Orientalists adopted the term "Bhote" or ...
a more distinctive identity, it is a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt known as the ''kera'' ( dz, སྐེད་རགས་, translit=sked rags). On festive occasions, it is worn with a kabney
A kabney ( Dzongkha: བཀབ་ནེ་; Wylie: ''bkab-ne'') is a silk scarf worn as a part of the gho, the traditional male attire in Bhutan.Gyurme Dorje. ''Footprint Bhutan''. Footprint, 004 . Section "National dress", p 261 It is raw silk, ...
.
The government of Bhutan requires all men to wear the ''gho'' if they work in a government office or school. Men are also required to wear the ''gho'' on formal occasions. In its modern form, the law dates from 1989, but the driglam namzha
The Driglam Namzha () is the official code of etiquette and dress code of Bhutan. It governs how citizens should dress in public as well as how they should behave in formal settings. It also regulates a number of cultural assets such as art and arc ...
dress code is much older.
The traditional dress for men is the gho, a knee-length robe tied with a handwoven belt, known as ''kera''. Under the gho, men wear a '' tego'', a white jacket with long, folded-back cuffs./ref>
See also
*Kira
Kira may refer to:
People
* Kira clan, a Japanese clan, descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880)
* Kira (given name), including a list of people with the given name
* Kira Chikazane (1563–1588), Japanese retainer
* Kira (German singer) (Janine ...
*Toego
A toego or tego ( dz, སྟོད་གོ་, ; also romanised tögo) is a long-sleeved, short jacket-like garment worn over a kira by women in Bhutan. The toego is thus part of the national dress of Bhutan required by the driglam namzha along ...
*Kabney
A kabney ( Dzongkha: བཀབ་ནེ་; Wylie: ''bkab-ne'') is a silk scarf worn as a part of the gho, the traditional male attire in Bhutan.Gyurme Dorje. ''Footprint Bhutan''. Footprint, 004 . Section "National dress", p 261 It is raw silk, ...
*Kho (costume)
The Kho or Bakhu is a traditional dress worn bland
Bhutia, ethnic Sikkimese people of Sikkim and Nepal. It is a loose, cloak-style garment that is fastened at the neck on one side and near the waist with a silk or cotton belt similar to the Tibet ...
References
Bhutanese clothing {{Clothing-stub