Dress and Ornaments.

The common dress of rural males of the district consists of shirt, turban, sheet (chaddar) thrown over the shoulders and tahband. The Pathans prefer shalwar instead of tahband. Peshawari chappal is the usual footwear throughout the district. Well-to-do Pathans or urban dwellers generally wear a peaked cap known as kullah with a turban. In winter, common people often wrap themselves in wollen blankets. A number of educated persons also wear western dress but this dress in restricted to towns only.

The usual dress of women consists of choli, frock, shalwar and dupatta. The Pathan women and the middle and upper middle classes in towns wear loose wrinkled trousers but the Jat women of rural area wear tahband or manjla. Generally, the dress of silken clothes are used on marriage occasions only. For daily use ordinary country-made cotton clothes are worn both by men and women. Ornaments worn by women folk throughout the country are also worn in this district on festive occasions.