Djellaba instead of smock

[scottish-bushcrafter]

so, I was on the hunt for a Swedish army smock, but had no luck and gave up.

But, my parents have just returned from an Africa trip and brought me home a Djellaba. Its a long cotton smock type garment, native to morocco apparently. it is also surprisingly warm.
I tied it up around the waist to bring up the height, this also gives it more of a smock appearance rather than a dress to be honest.

I highly recommend them for cold nights folks, maybe as a replacement for the now extinct Swedish snow smock.

ps. they are also very cheap (ebay)

 

[Goatboy]

And you get to look like a Jedi too.
Great things, my mates not had his off since he got back from Morroco a few months back.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[Dave Budd]

yep. A friend gave me a nice heavy black one a couple of yeas ago and with a little nip and tuck makes a great smock Also had some fabric left over incase I decide to make something else warm from it (the thing was like a dress on me before!)

 

[tiger stacker]

You could attend fancy dress parties as a friar whose habit is ahem different....

 

[Buckshot]

Is this the start of another moot theme perhaps???

 

[ozzy1977]

Mad monks and crazy jedi

 

[Goatboy]

Mad monks and crazy jedi

"These aren't the Hobnobs you're looking for"

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[SCOMAN]

I bought one in Muscat years ago for the dress up box. I wore it to a few stag do paintball games and the fabric absorbed the hit instead of bursting.

 

[Kilbith]

Djellaba/burnous is not a bad idea. It was the standard equipement of Goumiers and Tabors, but in wool. Most of the Morrocan troops came form mountain and they were equipped for cold (not extrem).

 

[TeeDee]

Quality Photos! Thanks for posting.

 

[spandit]

I bought a white cotton one in Morocco a few years ago. Wore it at a carnival with the hood pulled up, intending to look like a mysterious medieval monk. It was when the crowd started shouting "Oi! Ku Klux Klan!" at me (and after an unsurprisingly filthy look from a black marshall) that I took the hood down. Holding a flaming torch probably didn't help the image...

 

[Dr Toerag]

Woolen Djellaba available here at an astonishingly cheap price: £26 + postage.
http://www.shop-morocco.com/djellaba-35-c.asp

 

[bigbear]

This reminds me, I bought a djellaba in Tunisia years ago, never worn it, must dig it out as warm round the house wear this winter.