The richer herdsmen drink tea boiled with cow's or camel's milk, salt and butter. Their diet contains few vegetables. The garments vary among different localities and tribes. In winter, the men usually wear sheepskin shawls, and some wear overcoats padded with camel hair, with a belt decorated with metal patterns at the waist and a sword hanging at the right side. The trousers are mostly made of sheepskin.
Women wear red dresses and in winter they don cotton-padded coats, buttoned down the front.
Girls like to sport embroidered cloth leggings bedecked with silver coins and other silver ornaments, which jangle as they walk. Girls used to decorate their flower-patterned hats with owl feathers, which waved in the breeze. The Kazak family and marriage in history fully showed the characteristics of the patriarchal feudal system. The women had no right to property. The marriage of the children and the distribution of property were all decided by the patriarch.