#algerian kaftan

[sabrinetnh]

Caftan el kadi 🇩🇿 ✨

[jojou2]

his video presents a group of Algerian clothes made of velvet ,satin and lace, embroidered with golden threads "fetla" and studded with stones ,designed by Algerian designer " Karim Akrouf "and it's in order :

1- Algerian kaftan in black. 2- Green camizura with honey skirt 3- Algerian Karakou in aubergine with round pants in light violet (iris flower). 4- Gandoura in black. 5- Algerian karakou with a dress in black. 6- Algerian Gandoura with Burnos in purple . 7- Algerian Gandoura in mustard. 8- Algerian Gandoura with Burnos in blue,midnight blue. 9- Algerian kaftan in black. 10- The Naïli dress is yellow and lace is blue. 11- Algerian karakou in aubergine with beige shalqa pants. 12- Algerian karakou in mint green with round pants and the little girl also in mint green gandoura. 13- Oranian blouza in black 14- Algerian karakou with a pencil skirt in green. 15- Algerian karakou in mustard color with blue shalqa pants. 16- Algerian karakou with gray round pants. 17- Algerian karakou in dark purple with fuchsia round pants. 18- Algerian karakou in blue with pencil skirt in gray. 19- Algerian karakou in black with a bell skirt. 20- Algerian gandoura in forest green.

  In addition to traditional Algerian men's clothing.

Designer name: karim_akrouf_officiel

[worldwomensdresses]

Algerian Women's Dresses

Algerian Women's Dresses have the following elements:

Kaftan (Qaftan): Long, flowing tunic with intricate embroidery.

Takchita: Long, pleated skirt.

Hijab: Lightweight headscarf.

Intricate embroidery: Floral, geometric, and Arabic calligraphy motifs.

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[dubai-kaftan]

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[maximcreation]

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[mydearalgeria]

Originating from Ancient Persia, the Kaftan arrives in North Africa in the 16th century when the Ottomans settled in the region. In Algeria, the attire was first worn by men, mostly by notables and tribal leaders. Over time, it became very popular among Algerian women living in cities such as Algiers, Tlemcen, Constantine and Annaba.

At that time, the Kaftan worn by women became a more flared and fitted attire and was made from luxurious fabrics like silk, brocarde and velvet which were embroidered with both silvered or golden threads. Later on, Algerian women managed to create different styles of Kaftans such as the short and sleeveless one which is from the city of Tlemcen or the one from Annaba which is embroidered with a very famous triangular-shaped Algerian embroidery.

In one of her books, Naima Boujibar explains that the Kaftan might have been introduced to Morocco by the Saadi king Abd Al-Malik who had lived in Algiers and Istanbul. 

Sources : 

Encyclopedia of Islam.

Museum With No Frontiers.

‘Andalusian Morocco, a discovery in Living Art’ by Naima El Khatib Boujibar. 

‘The traditional Algerian Costume’ by Pascale Pichault.

[thefourthhexgirl]

Chedda of Tlemcen

A traditional Algerian dress, more precisely of the city of Tlemcen, but also worn in the west of the country. The chedda consists of a traditional kaftan of velvet and gold thread, decorated with cultured pearls, and necklaces that fall from the temples. Huge earrings hang from a conical cap embroidered with gold thread and placed on the head. The conical cap is knotted with a scarf with seven to nine diadems.

[sartorialadventure]

Chedda of Tlemcen

The chedda of Tlemcen is a traditional Algerian dress, more precisely of the city of Tlemcen, but also worn in the west of the country in particular in Oran and Mostaganem. A pure product of the Tlemcenian craftsmanship, it was worn by the Tlemcenian princesses of yesteryear.

The outfit is a traditional kaftan in velvet and gold thread, decorated with cultured pearls, necklaces, meskia and graffache. Khorsa (kind of earrings that "fall" from the temples) and huge earrings hang from a conical cap embroidered with gold thread and deposited on the head.

The dress is considered in Tlemcen, as the most expensive and the most beautiful dress that the bride wears on the day of her wedding, but also the other women at weddings. This garment is worn by brides with other jewels such as djouhar cultured pearls, meskia hanging necklaces, el-kholkhal which is wrapped around the ankle, in addition to the bracelets while the head is capped with a conical chechia embroidered with gold thread on which is knotted the mendil of mensoudj, kind of scarf where are placed seven to nine diadems. Including zerrouf (tiara), djebel (diadem) and other ornaments.

4. A bridal party, with the bride in the middle

[takow]

As an Algerian-Tunisian, I saw all of my disappointments in that post.

For real, we have beautiful clothings like kaftans but they went in the stereotypical way. We have a wide range of skin tones and hair textures but all we got is cadaver white and straight hair. It’s a gacha game ! You need to be the most diverse possible to attract more people.

We, Arabic, especially from Maghreb (the region in North Africa), have a non existent representation except stereotypes. Genshin is a really popular game it would have been amazing if we would’ve been greatly represented us and our beautiful culture.

All we have now is sexualised white peoples with Arabic names in non accurate for two pennies outfits, a stereotypical country and some vines as a tridimensional equipment. That really does suck.

And I’m not talking about the va’s terrible Arabic. I’ve only played in English but wth the prononciation is terrible. For Liyue and Inazuma’s characters, they took great care of pronouncing it right but for sumeru…

im really disappointed. I wanted representation look what we’ve got.

Genshin impact is so painful now

I love this game to death, the open world and its lore, the dragons, the gameplay, and the land of liyue reeled me in. And ofc Kaeya was one of the major reasons I started playing. I've been playing the game like maybe a month since it was released. So, like the launch era (yes I take pride in that it was the best era).

Mondstadt was an amazing introduction, to the familiar buildings of Germany. And the beautiful design of the culture mixed with the signature of genshin's design made the characters brilliant. Now the first story event (reconciling stars??) made me heavily excited about all the lore that was hidden ingame.

When I got to liyue I was glued to the game, forever, I thought. This was china from a whole nother perspective for me as a Moroccan. And to see such an elegant (not heavily sexualized) character like Ninguang in that cutscene. Yo, I fell in love. Childe was cute too, but then the man that got me everything or anything related to excitement and admiration came upon us. Zhongli. Oh, he was the package, with a beautiful outfit reminding u of the Chinese culture as it has its own modern genshin signature twist. Stunning. It's such characters that get me obsessed with games. Next to all of the intricate details and lore plus gameplay.

To finish off, Inazuma. That was one beautiful region, from the flora to the architecture. The temples and that beautiful quest. Ayaka's design is by far one of my favourites. Her design has her culture written all over it and it's beautiful. In Inazuma, we have so many characters inspired by their Japanese ancestry and it looks stunning and recognizable.

But then the sumeru leaks dwindled along. I was super excited for sumeru, that was my downfall.

After seeing these 3 beautifully represented cultures i was so naïvely excited for Sumeru. And thats expected right, i was rightfully excited to see the beautiful culture of the middle east, north africa and SEA being equally represented like the other three.

But thats when i heard al haitham an important arab figure whose name is now being occupied by a white buff tech man with a fandom who couldnt even pronounce his name right and call him habibi ?

ATTENTION: REPRESENTING. SWANA

Unrecognizable. In no way was the representation of Sumeru as intricately thought out as with the other regions. We have been colorised, orientalized and sexualized once again.

I'm gonna start with the one hurting me the most, Dehya.

(Listen i only heard her name and i was so excited to see my culture in this game i was jumping and ecstatic to see representation--- wait she is a cat girl warrior tf)

Dehya's name is inspired by Dihya, the name of an Amazigh Algerian military queen (Kahena). So quite a name to live up to. The Imazighen (us North Africans) barely get any representation as it is. And when we do, we become drawn out as barbarians or savages (for example another "name" for us is Berbers which the Romans called us).

Now what does Dehya look like huh? Yes indeed she has been revealed to be some warrior cat with an wild and savage look. And as an amazigh i hoped to see at least a little of our beautiful culture respresented. Yet i didint recognize any cultural aspects in comparison to litteraly any character in this game.

While we actually wear alot of beautiful jewelry! And we also have beautiful tribal tattoos, and Dihya herself is such a stunning figure to take refrence from.

But instead we get practically nothing. So we are now standing up for her. And yet there are people complaining against us saying that sexualization happens to every character. But Dehya is litteraly oversexualized on such a level that no cultural aspect is recognizable nor a point of interest.

Look im aware of the sexualization of female characters in games especially in gacha's. And its mostly the reason why i dont play alot of them. Yet in genshin its more mild and the design still upholds cultural aspects. Like with Inazuman characters; https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/o7eifv/inazuma_characters_design_analysis_spoilers_for/

And alot of Liyue characters;

This is why i ask of the bare minimum. To analyze and take interest in the amazigh culture. So Dehya's design could be oh so much more elevated and still badass. Because we as well would love to see a badass cat warrior with actual amazigh tattoos, clothes and jewelry.

Unfortunatly she isint the only problematic character.

Nilou, is an Persian dancer. Whilst having culturally accurate horns from the Sassanian period and a burst move from the gorgeous Persian dance. She has still been sexualized and orientalized. Dancers have always had their stomachs covered. Its culture, it's beautiful. By exposing the belly it's unrecognizable as Persian and becomes mixed with the Arab belly dancing outfit. If they want to sexualise her that badly then exposing the belly is the worst move- it erases the culture, it mixes with another culture, it sexualizes and orientalizes. It becomes a problem.

(Cr: demonscallme on twitter)

Tighnari, an amazigh name supposedly Moroccan. With ears from the fennec an animal from the western desert. Other than that his outfit and design is all over the place. In genshin they are more than capable of making modern day clothing mix with cultural themes. Yet this is not working at all. Nothing is recognizable nor representative of anything amazigh nor arab. Its just a jumbled mess. Disappointing in comparison to the modern clothing and cultural mixture of design with for example zhongli.

Dori is the worst of all the characters. She is orientalized and sexualized. No one encounters representation except seeing a  fucking joke. She has no cultural aspects that are recognizable instead she is the spitting image of an orientalized character. They have a huge region and countries with countless cultures to take interest in. Yet they went with none and followed stereotypes. Her clothing is also grossly sexualized for a child model. It's disappointing how we are being spat on, our cultures are being treated like a joke.

Now a major argument against anything related to the word orientalism had been "it's fictional".

Stereotyping and racism are stated under orientalism. When we say it's racist, stereotyped, and so orientalized it is wrong, it should not be spread around as if it's nothing. It hurts to see and it's disrespectful. So we SWANA deserve just like the german, Chinese and Japanese to be respected and upheld with the same input into our designated region. This game isin't so fictional anymore.

Colourism, all characters until now are pale. Not denying it. We have in the swana region, people of all colours. If u are gonna represent characters from that region we expect different skin tones. To be recognizing oneself is an amazing experience. And it would be representing swana perfectly. It does not hurt it only embraces. That's why we are speaking up about this. Look I'm willing to wait, to take this back, the moment we get a broad set of people from different skin colours. Its not hard to do, it does not contradict anything. So why are people still pressed? Aren't we supposed to break free from the stupid standard of the pale is elevated. There are white Arabs yes, I'm not saying we can't have any pale characters. But with a region as broad as the swana region. There are bound to be some different skin tones and that should not be ignored.

To conclude,

we want to have equal input into our region as there has been done with the previous three. We want people to see our beautiful cultures. And above all, we want to be respected. Yes, we cannot have everything, but it does not hurt to try. It does not hurt to speak out. And you who are against this notion, you are not achieving freemogems out of this. You are not changing our minds. You are not the only one in the world. Broaden your perspectives. For the sake of an exceptional game.

[sabrinetnh]

L'artiste algérienne Souad Massi porte le caftan algérien traditionnel lors de son concert réussi en Egypte ♥️

Une vue magnifique d'une artiste merveilleuse 😍♥️

[musicafricawake]

The People Of Algeria And their Dressing, With Their History In Africa.

The People Of Algeria And their Dressing, With Their History In Africa.

The people of Algeria and their traditional dress includes the burnous, qashabiya, kaftan, and djellaba. The burnoose, bournous or barnous, is a long cloak of coarse woolen fabric with a hood, usually white in color, worn by the African people of Algeria although the white burnous is worn during important events and by people with high positions while the traditional Berber Algerian garment is…

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[letternoon]

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[misk-el-lil]

That message you got from “French fashion student” really rubbed me the wrong way. I mean you’re free to do whatever you want but if they are really living in France and their only means of contact with Algerians is through tumblr or social media I mean like??? That just seems off to me I don’t think it’s appropriate for a white person to do that given the countries history but I mean it’s up to you of course if you want to help but their r already 100’s of white ppl in France designing kaftans

I see your point Anon but at first I assumed it was an Algerian living in France. But I can understand your concern. I mean we can't assume what their intentions are untill they ask the questions they have so don't worry about it I hope I'll (and anyone else they talk to) be able to make the right judgement :)

[maximcreation]

Made from top quality georgette fabric, this royal blue Algerian Kaftan is the perfect ensemble for any grand occasion.

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[mydearalgeria]

Algerian items exhibited in the Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 1963.

[1] : A long velvet Kaftan worn on top of a Ghlila Djabadouli made also with velvet and both embroidered with golden threads.

Algerian women used to wear their Kaftans in a very distinctive way in comparaison of other North African women. Indeed, they were generally worn with a velvet vest.

[2] : Chechia made of velvet and embellished with golden and silver embroidery. it is worn all over Algeria with different and various attires.

[3] : Traditional sleeveless Ghlila made of a very known fabric back then in Algeria called El Khemkha. It has also a typical Algerian embroidery pattern العوينات

[4] : Traditional Frimla embroidered with golden yarns.

[5] : Another type of Frimla made up of cotton, velvet and silk.

[6] : Traditional belt called Arbi/Dziri made out of cotton and silk and weaved with golden yarns.