Lhoba Clothes

Lhoba men wear a waistcoat reaching the abdomen and wrap the back with a piece of urus skin. They wear a long gown inside the waistcoat and a round-topped cap made of bearskin or woven with bines, and carry with them arrows and a long knife. They keep hair, of which the part on the forehead reaches the eyebrows and the rest is scattered on the back.

Lhoba women wear a round-collared narrow-sleeved short jacket buttoned down the front, a small piece of cowhide over it, a woolen tube-shaped skirt of colorful lattices reaching beyond the knees and leggings around the whole calves.

Both men and women like to wear accessories. Men wear necklaces stringed with pine green stones and beads, earrings made of bamboo sticks, and bracelets. Women sometimes wear more than ten or tens of blue and white bead strings, earbobs, silver coins, copper bells, iron chains, steels for flints, knives and shells, which may weigh more than ten jin (1 jin = 500 grams) altogether.