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Originally Posted by Layla27
What the moroccan princess is wearing on top of her takchita is called Selham not Bornos. Bornos is a Tunisian word if I am not mistaken.
The selham is part of the moroccan traditional dress. Moroccan women wear it on top of their Takchitas when they are invited to weddings, and other kind of official ceremonies. It can be made from silk or from whool.
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Lovely Layla27 ... thanks for poiting that :)
I add the following on "
Pre-Islamic Foundations of Maghribi Clothing".
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A second distinctive North African garment, noted in the Islamic period, is the hooded cloak, called
burnus in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and
selham and
akhnif (occasionally
burnus) in Morocco. There was a similar Greco-Roman garment, the
paenula, a travelling cloak to which a hood -
cucullus - was usually attached. Whether or not this influenced the development of the
burnus/
selham/
akhnif is unknown. In Arabia the term
burnus refers to some kind of hat or head covering. The invading Arabs distinguished between two major Berber groups, the Baranis and the Butr. It has been suggested that this may have been a differentiation between those who wore hooded garments (
baranis) and those who wore short garments (
butr). It is fairly clear that in antiquity and in the first few centuries under Islam, the Berbers did not wear head coverings like the Muslim Arabs. Indeed, some Berbers [men?] shaved all or part of their heads, which is mentioned in Classical and Islamic sources.
Third is the large rectangular wrapping cloth used as an outer garment by both men and women - although in different ways - from Libya to Morocco in pre-Islamic times, and continuing into the 20th century. Wrap garments have different names: in Berber (Amazight) they are
a'aban,
akhusi,
afaggu,
tahaykt, and others; in Arabic
ha'ik,
ksa', and
barrakan. The Arabs associated these ancient Berber wrappers with similar Arabic garments, such as the
izar,
milhafa, etc. It is clear, however, that the method of draping these wraps is quite different in the Maghrib.
From
http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/C...biCostume.html