Women wear headscarves; men in djellabas duck into a storefront mosque for evening prayers.
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The men's white and beige djellabas pop next to the darkness of their horses.
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There were loose silk djellabas in Spice Road shades and evening gowns in iridescent florals, hazy as a mirage.
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There were stacks of multicolored T-shirts, racks of sweatshirts and djellabas, and piles of slippers with mock sports-brand insignia.
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The women are in long black abayas and veils; many of the men wear traditional Malian garb or North African-style djellabas.
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The medina — the labyrinthine old part of the city — is still partly populated by stooped men in djellabas and the occasional donkey-led cart.
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Ils viennent mendier, vêtus d'accoutrements grotesques : voiles démesurés pour les femmes, même les fillettes ; djellabas en tissu pour les hommes ; chapelets affichés de manière ostentatoire.
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They come to beg for alms, wearing grotesque outfits: oversize veils for the women, even little girls; cotton djellabas for the men; prayer beads ostentatiously displayed.
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They show her love of volume play: fitted bodices adorned with multicolored printed vintage scarves that she has draped to form flared or balloon skirts and even djellabas.
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And that was before you got to the melting pot message implicit in cable-knit caftans and cashmere or leather djellabas, the latter shaped, just a bit, at the waist and sliced low at the neck.
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Critic's Take In Tangier, amid the spiritual seekers and the French tourists, the men in long djellabas and the stoned glue-sniffing street kids, there's a strip of concrete where the city's faded colonial grandeur is violently interrupted by a modern high-rise.
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Now, with its new, lushly appointed gift shop, admirers can take these home — plus browse a carefully edited selection of other goods from Morocco and beyond, including unusual vintage jewelry, ethereal clothing by the French designer Thierry Colson and dramatic leather caftans and djellabas, embellished with snakeskin and ostrich, by the American artist Paul Rowland, who spearheaded the store.
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Traditionally, djellabas are made of wool in different shapes and colours, but lightweight cotton djellabas have now become popular. Among the Berbers, or Imazighen, such as the Imilchil in the Atlas Mountains, the colour of a djellaba traditionally indicates the marital status (single or married) of the bearer:ezinearticles.com/?Traditional-Hand-Dressmaking-in- Marrakech&id;=3360786 a dark brown djellaba indicating bachelorhood. Traditionally, djellabas reached down to the ground but lightweight djellabas are somewhat slimmer and shorter.
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It is common for the roomy hood to be used as a pocket during times of warm weather; it can fit loaves of bread or bags of groceries. Traditional djellabas are generally made of two types of material, cotton for summer wear and coarse wool for the winter. The wool is typically obtained from sheep in the surrounding mountains. Buttons for djellabas are made in the town of Bhalil.
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"The French Indochina War 1946–54", Martin Windrow, During this, their final campaign in French service, the goumiers continued, at least for parade and in cold weather, to wear the distinctive flat-topped turbans and brown-striped djellabas that had distinguished these units since 1911.
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On one hand, there was the tailored, unisex look; on the other hand, a fluid, unstructured style with a strong feeling of 1930s glamor. The most influential American designer of the time, Roy Halston Frowick (known simply as Halston), belonged to the latter category. Acquiring celebrity status on the New York scene, his particular talent was in reconciling the made-to-measure garment for the special occasion with concepts of comfort, naturalness, and relaxation. With his kaftans, shirtwaisters, djellabas, ultra-lightweight shift dresses, and tunics worn over shorts and wide-legged pants, he was an icon of the era, and a regular visitor at the VIP room of the Studio 54 after its opening in 1977.
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Men often wear a light-coloured djellaba sometimes along with a traditional Arab red fez hat and soft yellow babouche slippers (balgha in Arabic) for religious celebrations and weddings. Almost all djellabas of both styles (male or female) include a baggy hood called a qob (Arabic: قب) that comes to a point at the back. The hood is important for both sexes, as it protects the wearer from the sun, and in earlier times, it was used as a defence against sand being blown into the wearer's face by strong desert winds. In colder climes, as in the mountains of Morocco, it also serves the same function as a winter hat, preventing heat loss through the head and protecting the face from snow and rain.
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