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TEHRAN (MNA) -- Officials of Kermanshah Cultural
Heritage and Tourism Department have established a
museum for various Kurdish costumes to revive
Kurdish clothing which has begun fading among their
youth, an official of the Anthropology Section of
the department said on Saturday.
“The Museum of Kurdish Costume houses dresses of
diverse tribes of Kurds in Kermanshah, Qasr-e Shirin,
Javanrud, Paveh, Uramanat, Kolya’i, as well as some
Azeri people living in the Iranian Kurdish region of
Sonqor,” Shahla Javaheri added.
Most of the dress fashions are coming from 1920s and
1930s, with some in Gilan-e Gharb dating back to
more than one century. Man and women models display
different dresses to the visitors. The ornaments of
tribes also have been displayed at the museum.
Exhibition area of each tribe has been decorated
based on its geographical situation. For example, a
stone-built room displays models of Paveh while
models of Gilan-e Gharb have been exhibited in black
tents.
The feasibility studies on the museum have been
conducted by Javaheri whose team gathered
traditional clothes for tailoring by old dressmakers
of Kurdish cities in Iran.
“I hope each Kurdish city in Iran will have a dress
museum for itself in the future,” Javaheri said.
The majority of the people living in Javanrud, Paveh,
and Uramanat in Kermanshah Province still maintain
wearing the traditional Kurdish dress. In other
Kurdish regions, only old people wear their
traditional dress.
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