Women maintained their authenticity resisting disintegration

ROZANA DADO/ ALEPPO

The Kurdish costume in each region of Rojava is different from the other in its quality and design, consisting of three or four pieces or more, often identified by their popular dress.

Many of families from Kobani city have moved to live in Aleppo for many years to secure employment opportunities. These families still retain their heritage, customs and traditions without being influenced by their surroundings.

She rejected modernity and clung to her traditional costume

Mother Hadla Msho Jum'a, 77 years old from Kobani, mother of eight children, four of them girls, and a mother of a martyr. After several years of marriage, she and her family moved to live in Sheikh Maksoud seeking for opportunities.

She lived in Sheikh Maksoud for 44 years. Mother Hadla was not affected by the environment in which she lived and changed from the habits she grew up in the city of Kobani, also she is still wearing her folkloric costume.

Mother Hadla faced many criticisms, as she was still wearing her folk costume, but she did not abandon her culture and answered: "My folkloric clothes are my culture and I will not abandon the culture I grew up on."

She inherited the Kurdish outfit from her grandparents passing it to her daughters

Mother Amina Habash, has 12 children, 4 of them girls, she lived in Aleppo for nearly 46 years. Also she did not abandon of her folkloric clothes believing in the holiness of the folklore she inherited from her grandparents.

She learned how to be a tailor who mastered the traditional clothing of folkloric clothing in Aleppo and was also sewing to her relatives as a kind of help.

Amina confirmed that folkloric cloth is a characteristic that distinguishes each community from another and can be evidence of one's heritage and culture.

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ANHA