The document discusses traditional Tunisian clothing. It describes some key elements of traditional female attire including the cut tunic and regional variations in embroidery. Traditional female outfits included items like portfolios, waistcoats, dresses, scarves, caps, and handles that were often ornately decorated. Traditional male clothing included items like the jebba robe and combinations of waistcoats, jackets, and jodhpurs worn with a silk belt. Traditional clothing is still worn today for marriages and ceremonies, and has also inspired more modern fashion designs blending old techniques with contemporary styles.

1. Traditional clothes Aid
By :
Souha
Assidi

2. • So today, Tunisian gets dressed and
relative in the same way, it was
different at
the beginning of the century, where
each area, if not each
village had its male and
female costumes.

3. • The female traditional costume is
characterized by its variety from one
area to another.
• However the essential part which
constitutes it is the bent “cut” tunic.

4. • Conceived in broad and simple forms
the tunics without handles, are often
cut in fabrics of wool, cotton or silk,
according to the circumstances. The
embroidery is the distinctive sign of the
various regional costumes
• Money wire, spangles and braids gilded
are the ornaments of almost all the
ladies‘ garments:
portfolios (Qmajja),
waistcoat (Farmla), dress

5. • Kadrûn), scarf (Takrita), Cap (Qoufiya),
handles (Kmâm), and tunic of marriage
(large Qmajja)..
• In the Sahel are made the draped rich
person, embroidered of gold and silk
where abound with multiple figurative
reasons: characters, flowers, animals…
• The villagers of the mountains of the
South raise their elegant draped
dresses of geometrical reasons.

6. • The caps richly decorated with
embroideries of silk, money, pearls and
gold, of the jewels, many and varied,
of the shirt makers to the broad lace
handles, of the shoes
to the adapted embroideries
were the essential complements of
these female costumes.

7. • The traditional costume is today still,
the behavior par excellence for the
marriages and the ceremonies and
constitutes a source of inspiration of
more modern clothes.
From the techniques and esthetics old,
new products were born. Clothing and
the ornament know a change adapted to
the life contemporary and imposed by
the fashion. The male traditional

8. • Kaddroun, the blouse, the bden are still
carried especially in the rural regions
but it is Jebba which was essential like
national traditional dress.

9. • Jebba Tunisian profited from the
influences Andalusian and Turkish to
forward itself such-which is nowadays.
This loose dress covering all the body, is
different according to quality from its
fabric, its colors and its
passementeries.

10. • The parts supplementing the port of the
jebba, male traditional costume of the
townsmen, contains two to three open or
closed waistcoats (bedaia), sedria,
fermla), a jacket (mentân), a jodhpurs
(serouâl) tight with the size by a broad
silk belt. Outside this costume is
supplemented by the port of a burnous
which is also raised by a special
embroidery works men embroiderers