Balochi dress

After Bollywood stars like Shabana Azami and many other, Now Hollywood and European stars wearing Balochi dresses to pay tribute to great Balochi culture.

A culture eagle eyes and reflect the present and the past of a nation and determination for future…

Dressing plays an essential part in any culture. It helps the world to recognize nation’s identity. In Balochi culture, no one deny the prerequisite of Balochi embroidery which is liked by all and sundry. It is not only popular in Baluchistan, all there all across the world. There is enormous demand of Balochi embroidered clothes in the Australia, England, and Dubai and so on.
Baloch people have maintained their traditional clothing till the present day. If you look into history of Baloch people, you will not find a lot of difference in Baloch dresses of today and earlier times. This dress code has a special significance for the Baloch people and they find any other dress as in-appropriate.
The Balochi embroidery is worked with tremendous color, eye-catching designs and lots of effort smooth embroidered on clothes with colorful threads, needles, rainbow mirrors and etcetera. The Baloch women hard work for achieving appreciated point of view by all in world. The women who sew clothes are called ‘Doch-Ger. They are like artist who robbed the nature’s beauty and adorned it into their embroidery.

The Baloch women are truly exquisite. Dresses have beautiful needlework done on the front and a large pocket at the front of the dress is also a cultural part of the dress. The needlework is done by the women themselves and the Baloch women are well-known for it. Balochi embroidery is one of the oldest in the history. Balochi female dresses are very famous because of their unique embroidery patterns adopted from the very native land.

The art, which involves the use of threads with unfaded colors, beads and tiny mirrors, has been passed down for many generations. One can easily link the motifs used in the dress making back to 7000 millennium B.C Mehrgarh civilization.

Same type of motifs can be seen on the pottery excavated from the site of Mehrgarh.

This is an integral part of the Baloch culture.
The Baloch traditional dress is called “Pashk”. The areas where such kind of embroidery is made are Makran, Kalat, Mastung, Noshki,
kohlu, DeraBugti, Sibi, JhalMagsi and kuzdar. An average dress takes 3 to 9 months to get completed. The price of a dress varies from design to design, ranging from 3000 to 45000 rupees.

The most striking feature of the women’s costume is the handmade embroidery covering the front of the dress and the cuffs of the sleeves and trousers. These embroidered pieces are prepared separately and later sewn onto the dresses. The piece for the front of the bodice is square and extends across the entire front from shoulders to waist. Another rectangular piece (Goptan) extends from the waist to the hem of the dress and comes to a point at the top. The sides of this piece are left unstitched for approximately 30 cm so that it can function as a large vertical pocket.

Meanwhile, selection of colours and designs of embroidered clothes differs from person to person rather than from area to area. One can easily judge the place of creation of the embroidery by its unmatchable patterns. The embroidered dress is weared by both young and older women. Whereas young girls prefer wearing embroideries in bright colours like pink, green, orange, yellow etc., the older women wear dark colours like blue, black or brown and according to the Baloch tradition it is compulsory for widows to wear black or dark colors.

like many other ancient cultures of the world, where the traditional dresses have much significance, the enlightening feature of the Baloch culture is also their cultural dress.
Baloch women are an expert when it comes to needlework. Here are some pictures of foreigners showing their love for Balochi dresses…