Tunisia Way

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.
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.

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 (Jebba and 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.
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.
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 costume has to him also its regional specificities all while referring at Arab ancestral origins for its general aspect (full costume).
Kaddroun, the blouse, the bden are still carried especially in the rural regions but it is Jebba which was essential like national traditional dress.
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.
The vestimentary trimmings (harj-elkessoua), woven passementeries, gallons, braids owe beings harmonizes some with fabrics of the jebba variable according to the seasons: tease, silk, cloth (melf), fabric of flax (quamraya) and mixes silk and teases (mqârdech).
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 called “Bransia”.