Tibetan Apron- A Bright Rainbow

The Tibetan ethnic minority is one of the oldest ethnic minorities in China, and its clothing has variety distinctive and characteristic styles. So when you pay a visit to Tibet, you will see many Tibetan women wearing colorful woolen aprons in front of their knees. The bright colors of aprons just like a rainbow, which illuminates the whole street. .Explore Tibet Team, a professional Tibet travel agency, introduces Tibetan apron to you.

Tibetan apron is a piece of cloth welted with colorful stripes, and it is called “Bangdan” in Tibet. Usually the striped Tibetan aprons traditionally are only worn by married women, expecialy woven wool apron. But, nowadays, more and more unmarried young ladies also like to wear. They can serve decoration and cold proof purposes.
Tibetan women like to wear dark-colored wrap dresses over a blouse, and they will tie a kind of long apron around their waist and hung from front waist to lower hem of the skirt.
There are two kinds of aprons, wide stripes ones and narrow stripes ones. The wide stripes one with contrast bright colors, just like the rainbow in the sky. Women in the farming and pastoral areas prefer this one. But women in townships like other elegant and graceful color just like fine-spun strips. But no matter what kind of the apron, they are very beautiful. On festive, Tibetan women will wear them around their waists, which is like several rainbow wrapping the body when they cluster together.
In the past, Tibetan Apron was only used as tributes to landlord, and today it ordinary people can afford it even sold to foreign countries all over the world. Travel to Tibet to join this unique event? Access .Explore Tibet Team to provide tailor-made tour planning and operation. Contact us right now and don’t miss this great festival!