Fruit is plentiful from summer to autumn and dried mulberries, apricots and their kernels and walnuts are eaten during the winter. Local wine is prepared during autumn and drunk. Formerly chicken and eggs were forbidden but nowadays these taboos are broken. Though men wear Chitrali hats and Shalwar-Qamiz like an ordinary Pakistani, their traditional clothes are baggy trousers made of heavy wool with a waistcoat and a wide woven belt. They wrap their feet in goat skin which protects their legs and also serves as boots.
Cattlemen wear a heavy overcoat from goat's hair to avoid the cold and snow in winter.
The women's costume is unique. They dress in a long sacklike black woolen gown which reaches to their ankles and tie a woolen sash at the waist. On the headdress, in addition to 500-600 cowrie shells, small bells, buttons and brooches are also attached and these make it quite heavy. They also decorate themselves with metal and plastic bracelets, rings, hairpins and about twenty thin chains are hung from their waist. These shells and accessories are brought by traders.