Fancy Afghani and Kuchi style frocks

Pashtuns and Afghans have a very rich traditional culture. Their colorful dresses and frocks are very much popular. They looks very fabulous and gorgeous. Usually pure Afghani dresses are difficult to find because they have left with fewer outlets in Peshawar where you can purchase good quality fabric of these colorful dresses both ready to wear and also on order. There was a time when Afghanistan people migrated to Pakistan during 1980,s. It was a time, when Peshawar and the adjacent areas of the north west in Pakistan were inhabited with these immigrants. Immigrations always leads to acculturation where two different cultures mix together. In such situation the locals people adopt some of the the new culture's patterns according to its needs and interest. Mostly people do adopt the fashion trends especially in dresses, though Pashtuns of northwest of Pakistan and Afghanistan already share same values and traditions. Still Afghani's have a very brilliant place in designing the handicrafts such as traditional dresses, the hand bags and different kinds of tribal jewelry. Here i am going to share some of the beautiful frocks i found in Peshawar, though i was looking quite long for them and finally i found all the stuff under one roof.

 Traditional Pashtun dress of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, tribal areas and Afghanistan are usually loose fitted. Belts are used to tighten up according to one's adjustment. How ever there is bit difference between Fancy Afghani frocks and the Kuchi style.Word "Koochi" is basically Pashto language word, which mean "nomadic". They are usually made of printed linen and bit rough and tough.

Fancy frocks are worn on special occasions and weddings,made from brocade, velvet rich colors.These frocks are adorn with different kinds of traditional accessories. Such as different kinds of laces, silver studs with rich blue, pink colors, diamntes and motif.

Traditional handbags for girls

Traditional style handbag

Tribal jewelry

Kuchi style frocks, bit roughly stitched as compared to the more sophisticated and fancy frocks. These are deliberately cut and stitched roughly because it is a nomadic style. The women worn such dresses usually lives in far away rural areas and mostly associated with grazing the cattle.

Coins Collection

Coin collection is a hobby mostly people get engaged willingly or  by chance. Usually it is associated with those people , who travel a lot. Here are some of the casually collected coins by my brother. He used to collect coins and postal tickets of different countries. Now he turned to other priorities of life and may be even forgotten about that. Hopefully i may remind him about through this post. I found them last day in his brief case. SO now i am gonna share all of them and dedicated the post to my brother. I am sure he will enjoy it :)

The innocence of Childhood!!

Is childhood a period of innocence?  Of course it is. Children try to discover every thing around them. Whenever i watch my nephew and kids of his age, they so innocently and deeply look up into the things and discover for the first time that seems to be amazing to them. They trust immediately and will give you every thing whole heartedly. Children enjoys even the simplest things.

Though Learning is a process that continue whole life and we all are in different stages of learning and discovering the world around us, but childhood has its own innocence, a unique qualities. Here i am gonna share few glimpses to my nephew, who is using the same pattern of discovering the things..

Spring arrival, the vase decoration

The colorful Spring is on its way in many countries of the globe, though in some it have already found its way. There are lots of beautiful vases and bowls available for different kind of flowers. In following i am gonna share some of the nice vases in different sizes. Some are made for keeping artificial flowers and plants while some of the more sophisticated one for spring flowers. They looks so nice on the table especially during spring season, giving a special aura of the season all around in the home. Most of them are made of plaster of Paris, with engraved designs and different painting over it. One can easily get them.