Silk Road Republic for Afghan dresses.
Amazing sets of Afghan traditional dresses, Designed by Maryam Hamidi-Shams.
You can visit the site to check more and place your orders here!
These are all so gorgeous! I’ve always found embroidery so irresistible…
I changed the link above to point directly to the most recent items, simply because the top-level home page includes a loud autoplaying audio track without any way to turn it down or off except via one’s own computer (or other device)’s volume controls. The site may also display oddly on some computers; I had to shrink the page in order to make all of the text visible, but fortunately the letters were still legible for me at that size.
The text on the home page at silkroadrepublic.com reads:
SILK ROAD REPUBLIC IS AN ONLINE SOURCE FOR TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY AFGHAN APPAREL FOR THE MODERN GIRL. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR OUR UPCOMING BRIDAL AND EVENING WEAR LINE.
Once the center of the Silk Road, Afghanistan and its people have held onto many treasures. Afghans are a beautiful mixture of different cultures and backgrounds blended into one identity and with this we build onto fashion. After decades of invasions and civil wars, Afghanistan lost many beauties, including its posh sense of style. The traditional clothing were being made and sold by middle aged men, because women were not allowed to take part in any business outside their home.
Slowly and steadily, the world is beginning to see the hidden treasures of Afghanistan. We at Silk Road Republic want the world to realize these beauties through their fashion, where the east meets the west.
[images: Ten photos of a woman (possibly the designer?) apparently of west- and/or central-Asian ancestry — her features including dark-brown eyes, wavy black hair, a strong nose and full lips — modeling a different set of clothing in every image. Each outfit is a salwar kameez, a traditional mode of dress in central and south Asia which consists of a long tunic (sometimes more closely resembling a medium-length dress to Western eyes, particularly when tailored for women), called kameez, and loose pants worn underneath, called salwar; in five of the photos the woman is also modeling a long matching scarf or dupatta, which is traditionally worn with salwar kameez. Each garment is decorated with varying amounts, colors, styles and patterns of embroidery, appliqué and/or other details. The predominant color of each photo is, respectively:
- plum-violet decorated in dull red and silver;
- vivid green embroidered in bright pink and gold, with a pink scarf;
- blood-red with darker embroidery and appliqué;
- white with geometric decoration in prussian-blue and coral;
- silver-fringed white with complementary silver-fringed green scarf;
- aubergine-purple with multicolored decoration;
- ultramarine blue with silver embroidery and matching scarf;
- black with cinnabar-colored decoration;
- deep red embroidered in turquoise and copper with matching scarf;
- hot pink with mini mirrors held on by silver thread and matching scarf.
The background of each photo is plain dark gray or black to highlight the garments.]
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