Traditional dress of Morocco

Morroccan suit

The muslim clothing through out ages and centuries, has kept well defined its dress code, dictated by countries’ culture and custumes. Fabrics progress in step with time and tastes, as various as countries are. So muslim suit does. From Riyadh to Cairo including Sana’a, we’ll make you discover the muslim’s suit in all its aspects. Let’s go to Morrocco where Djellaba has known how to defy time and impress.

A little bit of history is needed in order to better understand the evolution of the morroccan suit. Nobody can build its cultural heritage and its history by living in self-sufficience, cut from the outside world and relationships.

An influence from elsewhere

A few people knows it, but, nevertheless, there is no doubt that the morroccan dress code’s been influenced by the Persians, the Andalusians, the Romans and even the Turkishes.  

Open on Maghreb and Africa, galvanized byn islamic heritage, marked by its presence in Spain, and inspired by Arab and Berber cultures, morroccan suit is as eclectic as rich. Morroccan djellaba, as everyone knows it, just like caftan, finds its origins in the neighboring cultures, particulary the Ottoman empire’s one.

Even if caftan was at first a typically male clothing, with persian or turkish origins, it is totally a female dress now. What an evolution…!

It can be said that Morrocco deeply get inspiration from its neighbours. Morrocco has obviously resisted the Ottoman domination, but its promiscuity with them has not prevented its opaciy. We’re always learning one from another…

Djellaba, dignitaries clothing

Eventhough, djellaba is now commonly worn, it was at first a specific clothing for dignitaries. With style, refinement, and poise it used to dress highest officials in the society. In Morrocco, Bzou is the most famous Djellaba very appreciated by the high society dignitaries. The difficulties of making, weaving by hands, finishes, are the main factors for this djellaba’s price.

However, lot’s of people wants to buy bzouia even if it is out of price.

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Morroccan djellaba

If there would be one clothing that can never be considered as old-fashionned it would certainly be djellaba. This term is born from the arabic language and precisely from the term Djilbab. Djellaba points out a wide and longue dress decorated with a cap, that is worn in Maghreb. At the beginning, djellaba used to be simple, black or white, and has evolutated through times. Now vested with trimmings, sfifas, embroideries, djellaba is as beautiflul as refined. From north to south in Marocco, djellaba is worn differently but keeps its origins.

Gandora and sarouel

Djellaba is worn as a coat. Morroccan people are used to slipping into it, on top of their daily clothings. Gandora and sarouel are their common dress-code habits. Morroccan people wear them under their famous djellaba.

Gandora is generally a sleeveless tunic that goes from shoulders to ankles, and worn inside the house as outside, in order to feel comfortable. Notice that during summer time the gandora is worn alone, without djellaba.

Sarouel, as shown by its name, are trousers, oftenly wide and some times with a crotch.

Gandora and sarouel are both of them cotton or flax-made, one or two-coloured and a wide  range of colors as different as various work for one goal: the satisfaction of customers and the reflection of the Morroccan kingdom’s arts.  

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Eventhough Morrocco has not been saved from this killer globalization, this standardization of the fashion which tends to erase our origins, the country still resists to this western invasion.

As a daily basis or just for a celebration, you will always find a morroccan dressed up with his best djellaba.