As a part of Ladakh festival there was a fashion show. However the fashion was only represented with never old tibetan classics.
Such hats, earrings and dresses are sold everywhere in tourist shops but these are not plain souvenirs which can only gather dust on cupboard’s shelves. This is true present-day clothes. It seems surprising that somebody can wear national clothes in our world of jeans, t-shirts and folk skiffle-groups but here it is exactly like that. Plain dresses are worn by rural citizens everyday and the full dress is used for special events.(…)
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