Monday 22nd January, 2018
Clothing photos, Moroccan clothing, Qandrissi, Velvet
Monday 15th January, 2018
Clothing photos, Moroccan clothing, Qandrissi, Velvet
In my last post, I said I'd explain the above image. I'm wearing the
sage-green Moroccan shirt, and also a pair of Moroccan "qandrissi".
These are baggy trousers with the crotch at the knee or a bit lower,
usually heavily pleated, ¾ length, with the lower legs narrow
and sometimes finished with button-up cuffs. I wore a suede waistcoat
over the shirt: something about its relatively snug fit and the V and VV
at top and bottom seemed to make a nice contrast with the volume of the
trousers. Also, its colour was a nice bridge between the yellow-green and
the blue.
Here's a detail
from the photo, showing the pleats and cuffs — the latter just
visible
as a button on the right, and a loose thread dangling from a
not-quite-visible
button on the left.
The detail also shows: the two nested triangles making up the "Moroccan dart" at the end of the fly; seams where the lower-leg sections are attached; and seams showing the extent of the pockets. These are very conveniently deep, much more so than in conventional trousers. It's a nice habit in English villages that householders put boxes of windfall apples out for passers-by. I once walked home from a neighbouring village with a kilo of these, divided between my two pockets. The pockets' depth also means that keys and other valuables don't fall out: a security enhanced because the pockets often have zips.
The photo below is another pair, petrel-green, again showing the pleats:
It's odd that none of the high-street brands have learnt from this. As well as having secure deep pockets, the trousers' loose fit makes them very very comfortable, and the cut means they don't wrinkle as easily as with our styles, so one can keep them smart for longer. The whole design is much better thought out.