Traditional outfits from Tizi Ouzou
Kabylie Traditional Outfits:
Women's outfit:
At the beginning of the 20th century with the introduction of manufactured fabrics. Kabyle women had gradually abandoned the woven garment (akhellal) to adopt the taqendourth dress, which was originally woven and sewn on the sides and which they wore under the fibula veil, this dress has long sleeves and a yoke at the chest level, they are cut in printed cottons or in silks for the holidays, soberly decorated with colored ribbons on the selvedges and the chest for the first model and richly embroidered for the second.
A striped loincloth (foutha); a centuries-old piece, a black Amendil with fringes or a yellow scarf that covers the woman's head and shoes (tebachmaquins).
Enameled silver jewelry Tabzimt (fibula) on the chest, thimenguouchine (pair of earrings), azrar (necklace) and ekhelkhalens (anklets) for the feet.
Men's Outfit:
A rural outfit with ancestral clothing items; pants (harem pants), a light fabric blouse with long sleeves (thaqmdjet) which is worn under a tunic (gandoura) all covered with a cape (burnous).
Accessories accompany this outfit; a white felt head cover (chéchia) and leather shoes (çabbat laârbi).
Women's outfit:
At the beginning of the 20th century with the introduction of manufactured fabrics. Kabyle women had gradually abandoned the woven garment (akhellal) to adopt the taqendourth dress, which was originally woven and sewn on the sides and which they wore under the fibula veil, this dress has long sleeves and a yoke at the chest level, they are cut in printed cottons or in silks for the holidays, soberly decorated with colored ribbons on the selvedges and the chest for the first model and richly embroidered for the second.
A striped loincloth (foutha); a centuries-old piece, a black Amendil with fringes or a yellow scarf that covers the woman's head and shoes (tebachmaquins).
Enameled silver jewelry Tabzimt (fibula) on the chest, thimenguouchine (pair of earrings), azrar (necklace) and ekhelkhalens (anklets) for the feet.
Men's Outfit:
A rural outfit with ancestral clothing items; pants (harem pants), a light fabric blouse with long sleeves (thaqmdjet) which is worn under a tunic (gandoura) all covered with a cape (burnous).
Accessories accompany this outfit; a white felt head cover (chéchia) and leather shoes (çabbat laârbi).