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The kira ( dz, དཀྱི་ར་, དཀྱིས་རས་, translit=dkyi-ra, dkyis-ras) is the national dress for women in
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. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric. It is wrapped and folded around the body and is pinned at both shoulders, usually with silver brooches (named ''koma''), and bound at the waist with a long belt. The kira is usually worn with a
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(long-sleeved blouse) inside and a short jacket or
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 ...
( dz, སྟོད་གོ་, translit=stod-go) outside. A ''rachu'' (narrow embroidered cloth draped over the left shoulder) is worn over the traditional dress kira.Bhutan Majestic Travel


See also

* Kho *
Chuba A chuba is a long sheepskin coat made of thick Tibetan wool worn by many of the nomadic peoples of high altitude in the cold mountains of Tibet. The traditional sherpa clothing is distinctive to solu-khumba, the basic garment of the sherpas; t ...
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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 ...
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Wonju Wonju () is the most populous city in Gangwon Province, South Korea. The city is located approximately east of Seoul. Wonju was the site of three crucial battles during the Korean War. Geography Wonju sits at the southwestern corner of Gangw ...
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Pathin Pathin is a wrap-around skirt worn by the women of the Hajong tribe of the Indian subcontinent in Northeast India and Bangladesh.Hajong, B. (2002). ''The Hajongs and their struggle.'' Assam, Janata Press. It covers the upper and lower part of t ...
* Phasinh * Rigwnai *
Gho The gho or g'ô ( dz, བགོ, ) is the traditional and national dress for men in Bhutan. Introduced in the 17th century by Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, to give the Ngalop people a more distinctive identity, it is a knee-length r ...


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