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