Maldives Traditional Dress

Traditional ceremonial cultural dancing costume.

Traditional Mundu and Ganjufaraas (t-shairt)

Traditionally men wore a length of cloth wrapped around the waist, known as mundu (lungi in South Asia region). It was tied at the waist with a string or a piece of cloth, and hung to the feet. Traditionally men did not cover the top half of their bodies but later on people started wearing T-shirts and long sleeved shirts.

My brother wearing ceremonial traditional costume of Feyli and long sleeved shirt.

Another way of wearing traditional Mundu and T-shirt..

The traditional women's dress consisted of a lower garment known as a feyli or kandiki (a full length skirt, worn wrapped around the waist). On top of this a dress with long sleeves, known as libaas, which reached down to the knees was worn.

Me wearing a modernized version of a traditional costume.

Girls doing a cultural dance wearing Dhigu Hedhun.

Maldives the very First Ladies wearing the original traditional dress Libaas

A type of Maldives traditional dress show at a fair (kandiki and hedhunburi)

Maldives traditional dress Libas with Feyli

Dhigu hedhun or Fasskuri hedhun shown at The Bride Fair 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy New year everyone! Hope you have a good year!

A very happy new year! :')