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Parliament delegation heads to Syria
[06 October 2008]
Exhibition of rare manuscripts to be organized in Sana'a next week
[06 October 2008]
Indonesia to set up furniture producing project in Aden
[06 October 2008]
Legendary Jordanian artifacts smuggler released
[06 October 2008]
Czech comedian actors arrive in Aden
[05 October 2008]
 
  Reports
Political role of tribe in Yemen to be discussed
[24 July 2008]
First Management Leaders Forum launched in Sana'a
[07 June 2008]
Yemen-based banks record net profits of $100 mln in 2007
[20 May 2008]
Yemen, UNDP sign three project documents on poverty reduction, reforms
[14 May 2008]
$10.6 mln program document signed to address HIV/AIDS in Yemen
[12 May 2008]
 
  International
YAJC 9th session to be held in Algiers
[15 February 2008]
Yemen, Cuba higher education cooperation reviewed
[15 February 2008]
World countries marks Sept. 11 attacks
[11 September 2007]
Iranian official: Security of Yemen is security of Iran
[18 July 2007]
President Saleh assures Qadhaffi on Yemen security
[22 July 2005]
  Tourism
Old-Fashion Clothes.
[13 October 2003] Yemen was very famous for its textile ,fabrics and drapery from the ancient ages. Yemenis were pioneers in this field and their texture stuffs had gained a wide fame for the best quality characterized by when Yemen used to provide the inhabitants of the
Arabian Peninsula with their needs of Clothes.

Yemen has got a large variety of traditional clothes where each region has its own customs. As fabrics determined by the needs of the people that based on the climate conditions, the diverse geographical features of Yemen had created various forms of clothes which had been made to fit every area.

Thereupon, the old-fashion uniforms in the mountainous regions, as it is in Sana’a , Dhamar and Sa’ada , where the cool weather is dominant, defer from those types in the coastal regions such as Hodeidah, Hudramout and Aden, where it is too hot , and in the areas where it is often moderate, like Taiz and Ibb there is another kind of customs.

Traditional clothes in Yemen also controlled by the occasion where they should be worn and the available raw materials which they are made of. These factors actually had given rise to designing multifarious shapes of old-fashion fabrics which Yemenis had invented them throughout their long history and kept up holding on them as one of the national images of Yemeni character and symbol of its identity.

Old-Fashion customs of Yemeni woman used to be worn with traditional jewelry and harmony between the two is a pre-requisite . Hence, traditional uniform of women in Yemen characterized by wearing a sort of jewelry that must be in fit with the clothes. This is eventually a distinctive feature of the Yemeni female habits.
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