Textiles and Dress

Debit trousers

Debit trousers (Persian: شلوار دبیت, romanized: Shalvār Debit) are the wide black trousers traditionally worn by men of the Bakhtiari people of the Zagros Mountains in western Iran. They take their name from Debit, the black cotton cloth from which they are made. The ethnographer Jean-Pierre Digard describes the trousers as the most distinctive part of Bakhtiari men's dress, serving as a badge of tribal identification. Wide trousers were already part of Bakhtiari men's dress in the 19th century, when Western travellers described them.

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• ▸Gendered associations of pink and blue
• ▸Fort Adams
• ▸Fengguan

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