Traditional Thai clothing
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Traditional Thai clothing is called chut thai (Template:Lang-th Thai pronunciation: [tɕʰút.tʰaj]) which literally means "Thai outfit". It can be worn by men, women, and children. Chut thai for women usually consists of a pha nung or a chong kraben, a blouse, and a sabai. Northern and northeastern women may wear a sinh instead of a pha nung and a chong kraben with either a blouse or a suea pat. Chut thai for men includes a chong kraben or pants, a Raj pattern shirt, with optional knee-length white socks and a sabai. Chut thai for northern Thai men is composed of a sado, a white Manchu styled jacket, and sometimes a khian hua. In formal occasions, people may choose to wear a so-called formal Thai national costume.
Pha nung
It is like a sampot. The sampot (សំពត់, ALA-LC: saṃbát, IPA: [sɑmpʊət], pronounced sampaot) is a long, rectangular cloth worn around the lower body. It can be draped and folded in several different ways. The traditional dress is similar to the dhoti of southern Asia. It is also worn in the neighboring countries of Laos and Thailand where they are known as pha nung (ผ้านุ่ง).
Chong kraben
Chong kraben (Template:Lang-th Thai pronunciation: [tɕoːŋ.kràʔ.beːn]) is a lower-body, wrap-around cloth. Unlike the typical pha nung, it resembles pants more than skirts. It is a rectangular piece of cloth measuring 3 meters long and one meter wide. It is worn by wrapping around the waist, stretching it away from the body, twisting the ends together then pulling the twisted fabric between the legs and tucking it in the back of the waist.
Sinh
The sinh (Template:Lang-th Thai pronunciation: [sîn]) is a tube skirt which is worn by wrapping around the waist. A sin typically consists of three parts: hua sin, tua sin, and tin sin.
Sabai
Sabai (Template:Lang-th Thai pronunciation: [sa.baj]) or pha biang (Template:Lang-th Thai pronunciation: [pʰâː.bìaŋ]) is shawl-like garment, or breast cloth. Sabais can be used by women and men. Sabai is also known as a long piece of silk, about a foot wide, draped diagonally around the chest by covering one shoulder which its end drops behind the back.
Suea pat
Suea pat (Template:Lang-th Thai pronunciation: [sɯ̂a.pàt]) is a long-sleeved shirt with no buttons. It is worn by wrapping the right side of the front panel of the shirt over the left side of the front panel, and the two panels are tied together via strings. Suea pats are typically worn by northern Thai women
Raj pattern
Raj pattern (Template:Lang-th, RTGS: ratcha pataen) refers either to a Thai men's costume consisting of a white Nehru-style jacket with five buttons, a chong kraben, knee-length socks and dress shoes, or to the specific form of the jacket itself. It was worn chiefly during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by government officials and the upper class in Bangkok, and nowadays is used in select circumstances as a national costume.
Formal Thai costume
The formal Thai costume, known in Thai as ชุดไทยพระราชนิยม (RTGS: chut thai phra ratcha niyom, literally Thai dress of royal endorsement), includes several sets of dress, designed as the Thai national costume in formal occasions. Although described and intended for use as national costume, they are of relatively modern origins, having been conceived in the second half of the 20th century.
Thai dress royally bestowed shirt
Few people know that woman in Thailand have traditional clothes by the graciousness of her majesty, queen Sirikit, the queen of King Rama 9. She has diligence to study about patterns of dresses that appeared since the days before the Sukhothai period until the Rattanakosin period, and she applies that lay out to set Thailand women's dress styles to be the traditional clothes of woman since 1960. The Thai woman’s traditional clothes are call “Thai dress royally bestowed shirt”.
The meaning of Thai dress royally bestowed shirt is a national costume, which represents the tradition, culture, race, and identity of the Thai people clearly. The layout of the dress is from uniforms of the ancient Thai woman, such as Sinh, silk fabric, and Sbai in various styles. Most of Thai dress royally bestowed shirt still use the original layout, but has been sewn and decorated to be appropriate with the present time.
See also
References
Further reading
- Conway, Susan, and Mūnnithi Čhēm ʻĒt Dapbœ̄nyū Thō̜msan. Power dressing: Lanna Shan Siam 19th century court dress. Bangkok: James H.W. Thompson Foundation, 2003.
- Conway, Susan. Thai textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1992.
- Lu, Sylvia. Handwoven textiles of South-East Asia. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Meanmas, Chavalit. Costumes in Asean. Thailand: The National ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information of Thailand, 2000.
- Wee, C. J. Wan. Local cultures and the "new Asia": the state, culture, and capitalism in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002.
External links
- Traditional Thai Costumes
- Thai National Costume
- The Formal Thai National Costume
- Thai National Costume in Thailand
