"I normally go to the guy next door," said Mr. Blushi, who also wanted several dishdashas for his wedding.
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Their wedding will take place over several days, so Mr. Blushi ordered five dishdashas in various colors, as well as three or four massars.
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Those troubles seemed far away as the pope's plane touched down amid the palm trees, opulent high-rises, men in white dishdashas and enormous mosques in Abu Dhabi.
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Yet almost every tailor here — and virtually all dishdashas are made to order — is a Bangladeshi or Indian immigrant who has perfected a trade learned from an Omani tailor.
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As the smoke lingered above the palace and the gazebo, the pope greeted the Emirati delegation, with the men in sunglasses and dishdashas, and the women in traditional chadors.
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The brainchild of Mr. Kushner and his team, the two-day "Peace to Prosperity Workshop" brought Arab dignitaries in dishdashas and headdresses together with skullcap-wearing Orthodox Jews from Israel and the United States.
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The garment would not be opulent, but more like the crisp white ones he wears daily — and made from the same high-quality Japanese polyester that Mr. Allak uses for all his not-a-wrinkle-in-sight dishdashas.
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Accompanying all dishdashas are the kumma, an intricately embroidered headdress that is part of daily wear (many workplace dress codes require it), and the massar, a colorful turban that goes over the kumma and is worn in the evening, especially at formal occasions.
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Their shoes were taken from them, their pockets emptied and their belts discarded, and, as they stood facing the wall, the backs of their dishdashas were stained with the evidence that some of them had not been to a toilet in days.
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There are also tiny shops (on the side streets and alleyways leading up to the souq) with Omani silver, stalls of white dishdashas and embroidered kumahs, brightly colored cloth, and multicolored head scarves. Shoppers can even obtain old Arabian muskets at these souqs. Other items sold at the souq include Omani pots, paintings, hookah pipes, framed khanjars (daggers), leatherwork, and incense. The souq goes by various names: Market of Darkness, due to its myriad of alleys and roads lined by shops that block the sun during the day. The east and west parts are also known as “the small market” and “the large market”.
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