PHOTOS: National Clothing Day celebrated in Kurdistan Region
Students and teachers in primary and high schools across the autonomous region wore colorful clothes.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Most people showed up to work on Thursday wearing traditional Kurdish clothes to celebrate National Clothing Day.
Unlike a typical day filled with assignments and exams, National Clothing Day is more relaxing for students since they can instead enjoy Kurdish dancing and show off their traditional outfits.
On Thursday, students and teachers in primary and high schools across the autonomous region wore colorful clothes.
All classes and exams were postponed so the students could celebrate the day, Ms. Parween, the head of Kurdish primary schools in Kirkuk, told Kurdistan 24 on Thursday.
“My clothes are of my mom’s wedding dress,” a female engineering student told Kurdistan 24 at her college in Erbil.
All the staff of Shaheed Sarkar police station in Halabja Province also turned up to work wearing Kurdish clothes.
The Iraqi Parliament's Second Deputy Speaker Shakawan Abdulla, a Kurd himself, joined Kurdish teachers and students in Kirkuk province to celebrate the day.
National Clothing Day is celebrated annually in the Kurdistan Region on March 10.
March 10 has extra significance for the Soran Independent Administration since, in addition to clothing day, it marks the anniversary of the day locals removed the former Iraqi regime from their region. Locals commemorated the 31st anniversary of Soran’s liberation on Thursday.
Kurdish people often wear their traditional outfits for weddings.
Assyrian students also wore national suits and clothes to mark the special day.
