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Celebrities Wearing Moroccan Caftan and Takchita

Moroccan Caftan and Takchita are now in the peak of their glory. Celebrities all over the World are rushing to wear Moroccan Kaftans in big events.

Nobody in the Moroccan Kaftan business expected this boom in celebrity circles, and to be honest I didn’t expect it either.

According to numerous stylists and designers Moroccan caftan and Takchita made their breakthrough thanks to the biggest Haute Couture brands that introduced Moroccan Caftan and Takchita to mainstream media.

However, we shouldn’t be ungrateful, Moroccan emigrants (estimated to be 4.5 million across the World) deserve some credits for their efforts in carrying their culture with them proudly wherever they go in the World.

The caftan, or kaftan, is the traditional dress of Moroccan women. In the era of the Sultans, the caftan was worn by both men and women.When the caftan came to Morocco from Turkey, it became primarily an article of women’s clothing.

Old Turkish Caftan

Caftan is loose-fitting, but is usually more elaborate than other Moroccan traditional garments like the jalabia, because it is worn more often for special occasions.It is a long dress in the style of a robe. Caftans are made of either cotton or silk. They are ankle-length and can be fastened up the front with buttons. A sash around the waist completes the outfit. Some caftans are designed with elaborate colors and patterns, and other styles are much simpler.

The traditional wedding dress in Morocco is caftan,although some women prefer Western wedding dresses to be more modern.Caftans designed for weddings can be very elaborate, with brightly embroidered floral patterns in a variety of colors, including green, red, dark brown and white. The sleeves are full and very wide.

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Moroccan caftan in fashion of word

Moroccan caftan

Persian origin, the caftan (pronounced Caftane) is a long tunic and wide, without a collar, long sleeves, composed of several strips, which give greater or lesser extent. It is worn both by men than by women. Completely open at the front, it is topped with a cord of braided silk (sfifa), closed with a row of buttons (âakad) and its flanges (Aayoun). This caftan is called ain or ouqda ("eye buttons"). Its silk embroidery is gold or silver, precious stones or trimmings. They adorn the breastplate, shoulders and cuffs.

The first written mention the Moroccan caftan date from the sixteenth century. Already worn by the Parthians and Persians, the caftan was introduced into the Muslim East under the Abbasids. The Emir Abd al-Rahman II (822-852) - small son of Abd al-Rahman I, who won Andalusia, where he formed an independent emirate in the ninth century - loving culture, the artist received Zyriab, come Baghdad. This was the Andalusians discover the refinement of the Muslim East and the musical modes, culinary arts and clothing. He showed them what to wear according to the seasons: white and light summer fabrics, clothing lined and dark winter. At the beginning of the twelfth century Andalusia - governed by the Berber dynasties - says artistic sensibility clean, new tastes and new aspirations that allow his art and his craft shine throughout the Mediterranean. Its influence is continuously in Moroccan cities called hadaria ("urban"): Fes, Rabat, Salé and Tetouan. In 1492, the Christian reconquest ended with the conquest of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom remained in the hands of the Nasrid sultans (1238-1492). Despite their promises, the Catholic Kings ordered the expulsion of Muslims and Jews. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, waves of exiles arrived and Morocco. They will know the northern cities of the latest techniques of silk weaving and conclude propagate their fashions.

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Moroccan tarbouch

Tarbouche Fez (طربوش فاسي or ṭarbūš FASI) is a rigid male headgear felt, often red, truncated cone shape, decorated with a black tassel attached to the top. The fez is from Greece , and has been adopted by many ethnic and religious groups in the Ottoman Empire nineteenth century. Nowadays, it is increasingly rare to see covered.

However, this assumption of Fez Moroccan Ottoman origin does not explain why the one hand the Ottomans called the cap "Tarbouch fassi" that is to say in French "Fez Hat" and why other share the Moroccans call "Fez", the "Tarbouch" and sometimes the "scarf". Moroccans who have not known Ottoman colonization never called the cap "hat Ottoman." (See history and origin of Fez)

There is another hypothesis stating that the inhabitants of Fez taunted the Ottoman Algeria who never managed to get beyond the wadi Moulouya wearing a head covering similar to theirs.

In Morocco, the Moroccan Fez (cap shorter than the Ottoman fez) is still part of the official uniform of Moroccans and is worn with a white slippers jellaba yellow or white, this dress is that groups of Arab-Andalusian music Moroccan. (see external links)

It can also be held in Fez Ottoman Ottoman traditional musicians of Arab-Andalusian music of Algeria. Algeria (a country that is part of the Ottoman Empire) the cap bears the names of "Chèche of Istanbul" or "Tarbouch."

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