Shalwar kameez Pakistani women wear the
shalwar kameez which is worn in different styles, colours, and designs which can be decorated with different styles and designs of
embroidery. The kameez can be of varying sleeve length, shirt length, and necklines. The drawers can be the straight-cut shalwar,
patiala salwar,
churidar, cigarette pajama, tulip trouser, samosa pajama, or simple trouser
Dupatta The
Dupatta is treated just as an accessory in current urban fashion. Most women who carry it nowadays wear it just as a decorative accessory; it's usually worn wrapped around the neck or hanging down the shoulder. [Dupatta] is also used by some women when entering a mosque, dargah, where they cover their head with a dupatta while entering such places. It is widely worn by women in weddings and other parties out of choice and fashion. On such occasions, mostly it is wrapped around the waist, neck, or just draped on a shoulder. It is used with different embroidery designs of Kamdani and
Gota.
Burqa In Pakistan, upper and middle-class women in towns wear burqas over their normal clothes in public. The burqa is the most visible dress in Pakistan. It is a garment worn over the ordinary clothes and is made of white cotton. Many upper-class women wear a two-piece burqa which is usually black in colour but sometimes navy blue or dark red. It consists of a long cloak and a separate headpiece with a drop-down face veil. Some educated urban women no longer wear the burqa, while some of them wear
Hijab as an alternative. The burqa is also not worn by rural peasant women who work in the fields. In rural areas only elite women wear burqas.
Bridal dresses Pakistani brides traditionally opt for lehengas, anarkalis, or shararas and ghararas. Most wear lehengas, popularly either with short lehenga cholis or a longer shalwar top. Lehengas are long skirts usually paired with a short blouse known as a choli, but can be paired with a long shalwar kameez. Anarkalis are also an option, imitating gowns. Shararas consist of a blouse or shalwar, with loose pants. Ghararas, are similar, except the pants are tight at the thighs and flare from the knee. All these options are normally intricately embroidered, and are moderately popular with Indian brides too.
Other traditional dresses On special occasions such as
Eid more heavily embroidered iterations of the shalwar kameez are worn by Pakistani women.
Farshi Pajama is an old traditional dress which is worn occasionally. Laacha is worn in Punjab, the lower part of which resembles the
dhoti.
Regional clothing Balochistan The typical dress of a Baloch woman consists of a long frock and shalwar with a headscarf. Balochi women wear heavy embroidered shalwar kameez and dupatta with the embroidery utilising
Shisha work. The Balochi Duch from Makran District is one of the many forms of Balochi dresses and is famous all across Balochistan. Since it is purely hand embroidered, Balochi Duch is expensive and it takes months to complete a single Balochi suit. File:Pakistani Baloch Lady.JPG|Pakistani Baloch Lady File:Traditional Balouchi Dresses.JPG|Traditional Balochi dresses File:Quetta Poor child ..JPG|Children in Quetta wearing local embroidery designs File:Malookan.JPG|Malookan, Pakistani Baloch embroidery artist
Sindh Sindhi women just like Sindhi men commonly wear Sindhi Salwar with wide and long Cholo (tunic) nowadays, with
Sindhi embroideries and
mirrorwork, along with large Sindhi veil (Rao, Gandhi, Poti), back In time the traditional dresses of Sindhi women varied from region to region, from tribe to tribe as much as that the clothes become mark of identification of one's tribe, but most common code of dresses were Sindhi Cholo/Choli of various styles and embroidered (
Gaj/Aggoti), trousers salwars/suthan or
pajamo was usually made of
Soossi,
silk or
satin fabric and over salwars a wide
Bandhani (tie and dye) cloth Paro/Ghaghro/
Pashgeer/Jablo (skirt), or of
Satin or Sossi fabric skirt. which is most frequently worn. Punjabi women, in villages, also wear the Pothohari shalwar, the Patiala shalwar, the laacha (tehmat), kurti, ghagra,
lehenga, and
phulkari. File:Phulkari from Punjab, India, 20th century, khadi, silk, plain weave, embroidery, Honolulu Museum of Art.JPG|Phulkari File:Saraiki Tradition Ghagra women wearing dreas.JPG|Saraiki Tradition women wearing ghagra File:Pakistani cultural dress.jpg|Cultural dress File:Bed Sheets - Bahawalpur Museum.jpg|Bahawalpur kameez File:Pakistani Punjabis at a wedding.jpg|Pakistani Punjabis at a wedding File:Saraiki children wearing cloths & saraiki Fashion ofr children.JPG|Saraiki fashion File:Rohi's Women Dress - Bahawalpur Museum.jpg|Rohi woman's dress File:Gota Embroidery.jpg|Lehenga with
Gota Embroidery File:Collectie NMvWereldculturen, TM-3500-9, Wit geborduurd vrouwenhemd. Josephine Powell Collection, voor 1965.jpg| Josephine Powell Collection, voor 1965. Phulkari kurta
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa In urban areas women typically wear the shalwar kameez.
Pashtun women commonly wear shalwar kameez and in some regions, particularly in
Tribal areas, women wear
firaq partug which is also worn in neighbouring
Afghanistan. In
Kalash region, women wear embroidered long shirts. File:Kalash women traditional clothing.jpg|Kalash women traditional clothing File:Kelash valley.jpg|Kalash valley File:Kalash girl.jpg|Kalash girl File:Wedding dress (jumlo), Indus Kohistan, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan, view 1, mid 20th century, cotton, metal and glass beads, plastic buttons - Textile Museum of Canada - DSC00930.JPG|Wedding dress (jumlo), Indus Kohistan, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan, view 1, mid 20th century, cotton, metal and glass beads, plastic buttons - Textile Museum of Canada - DSC00930 File:Frontier Folk of the Afghan Border—and Beyond WDL11798.pdf|Child of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 1920 approx. ==Wedding dresses==