Salar Clothes

The short jackets worn by Salar men are a bit looser or shorter than those of the neighboring Han men. However, they wear narrow long gowns. And, they wear a piece of cloth or a silk band, a white or black round-topped cap. Young men love to wear white gowns plus black waistcoats, and a red waistcloth. Old men mostly wear long gowns. They coil a long piece of white cloth around the head in worships.

Young women like to wear colorful clothes buttoned on the right and often wear a black waistcoat over a red jacket. Women prefer to wear accessories such as long strings of earrings, fingerings, and bracelets, etc. They wear long gowns and veils. Evolved from veils worn by Islamic women, the veils worn by Salar women cover the whole head with only the face exposed. Girls or women who just get married wear green ones, those who have been married long or have given birth to a baby wear black ones, and women above 50 years old shift to white ones.