page_title: Kira (Bhutan)
hierarchical_section_title: Kira (Bhutan)
caption_attribution_description: English: Bhutanese women at festival in national dress. (Kira &amp; Tego)
context_page_description: The kira is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric. It is wrapped and folded around the body and is pinned at both shoulders, usually with silver brooches, and bound at the waist with a long belt. The kira is usually worn with a wonju inside and a short jacket or toego outside.
  A rachu is worn over the traditional dress kira.
context_section_description: The kira (Dzongkha: དཀྱི་ར་, དཀྱིས་རས་; Wylie: dkyi-ra, dkyis-ras) is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric. It is wrapped and folded around the body and is pinned at both shoulders, usually with silver brooches, and bound at the waist with a long belt. The kira is usually worn with a wonju (long-sleeved blouse) inside and a short jacket or toego (Dzongkha: སྟོད་གོ་; Wylie: stod-go) outside.
  A rachu is worn over the traditional dress kira.
caption: Bhutanese women wearing kiras
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