In the morning, you would wake up in a house made of sun-dried bricks. If you were a boy, you would probably dress like your dad. You would wear baggy cotton trousers, with a long cotton shirt. You would wear a wide sash around your waist and a skullcap on your head. If you were a man, you would wear a turban over top of your skullcap. You would take your turban off when you worked in the fields. If you were a girl, you would dress like your mother. You would wear a long, loose shirt or a high bodice dress with a swirling skirt over your trousers. Then you would drape a wide shawl over your head and put on jewelry. Jewelry is collected as a form of family wealth. Women in the villages seldom wear a burqua.

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