When a belt is worn it is tied around the hips and serves to support the figure as well as to adjust the length of the garment. Old Bedouin costumes were richly embellished with fine hand embroidery worked in cross stitch. The design was embroidered across the front and back of the bodice, down the sleeves and along the main seams. Machine stitched embroidery now takes the place of hand work generally. The embroidery is of a contrasting color, usually red or yellow.
Blue dresses are embroidered in black or red.
The Bedouin headdress combines a rectangular scarf of black silk georgette with a diagonally folded band. The thin scarf is draped around the head and under the chin so that the throat is covered. The folded band is tied squarely on the head so that it covers most of the forehead. The Bedouin woman pulls her hair out from under the veil to frame her face. Often the hair has been hennaed.