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Thứ Bảy, 31 tháng 8, 2013

Understanding Why Turbans For Men Are Worn

By Kate McMahon


Peaked turbans for men are worn by Sikhs for the purpose of covering their long hair, which is never shaved due to the respect they have for Gods creation. Devout Sikh men also do not cut down their beards. Instead, most of them decide to comb out their beard, twist and tuck it up within their turbans together with their long hair.

Muslim religious clerics often wear turbans draped around caps known as Kalansuwa in Arabic. Such caps can be conical or spherical, solid white or colorful, with their styles varying widely from region to region. Additionally, the color of these turbans wrapped around a kalansuwa also varies. White is considered to be the purest turban color by some Muslims, based on a legend that a white turban was worn by Prophet Muhammad.

Some Muslims prefer green since it is considered a paradise color. However, not each and every Muslim wears a turban. In fact, those living in major cosmopolitan regions within the Muslim world western countries rarely wear them, considering them as old-fashioned.

Afghan men wear a variety of turbans, with differences observed in the way they cover their heads even within the Taliban, the oppressive Islamic government controlling most of the country. For instance, Taliban members can wear quite a long turban, probably two intertwined together with a single end hanging loose over their shoulder. On the other hand, Talibans ambassador to Afghanistan favors a black solid turban tied over his forehead.

Some afghan men rarely wear a turban at all, choosing instead some rather distinctive afghan hats. Iran leaders wear either black or white turbans folded in a flat circular style. It is thought that the word turban has its origins from the Persians who lived in the area now known as Iran, whose term for it was a dulband.

Indian men in some instances adorn a turban to show off the class, religious affiliation, caste or profession that they belong to. In India, this headgear can be somewhat complex. However, it is not only in India that a turban is designed using desirable woven clothes and decorated with expensive jewelry. In places such as Turkey, men are known to signify how wealthy and powerful they are by wearing such headpieces.

Technically, the kaffiyeh is not considered a turban. Actually, it is a rectangular piece of clothing that is diagonally folded and then draped across the head, as opposed to being wound like as a turban. In recent times, the kaffiyeh has been made famous by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. This headgear, however, is not solely affiliated to the Palestine. Men in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf states and Jordan wear kaffiyehs in styles and colors that are exclusive to the region. For instance, Jordanians wear white kaffiyehs while Palestinians wear white and black ones. Saudi men are most likely to wear their kaffiyeh differently from their Jordan counterparts.

Residents of deserts have for a long time worn turbans for men so as to prevent their faces from coming into contact with sand. They also use them as a way of disguising their faces. In addition, the color of the headgear is also utilized to show off from a distance the wearers tribal affiliation.




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