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blue with indigo. They take from six to twenty yards of cloth about 

 sixteen inches wide, and cost from 6 annas to 2 rupees. 



Slippers are of brown leather made of a peculiar form, and the soles 

 stitched together with cotton thread. They cost half a rupee per pair, 

 and an inferior kind six and seven annas. Poor tradesmen and manu- 

 facturers change their shoes every six months and sometimes twelve 

 months. 



The upper garment (cholo) of the Sindees, is a loose shirt of white 

 cotton similar to the smock of an English ploughman : it has alow collar 

 fastened over the right breast and reaches below the knee, and takes six or 

 eight yards of cloth. The pastoral tribes of the desert and poor farmers, 

 usually dye the frock blue, and other classes a sort of yellowish brown 

 colour with extract of turmeric and pomegranate shells. Some wear a 

 loose waistcoat with a cotton sheet (bochun) twisted over it, containing 

 from six to twenty yards of cloth according to the means, and taste of 

 the wearer. 



Their trousers or drawers are of course cotton stuff usually dyed blue, 

 made very full, low in the seat, and rather tight above the instep. Some 

 reach only to the small of the leg and are fastened at the loins with a 

 running string. Tradesmen and manufacturers allow themselves four 

 or six suits of clothes in the year. 



The higher ranks wear round the waist a loongee made at Thatta of 

 mixed silk and cotton threads of gay colours. The middle ranks have 

 loongees of white cotton with blue cross bars six or seven cubits long with 

 a border of crimson silk and cotton mixed, and the poor gird their loins 

 with a bit of coarse cotton cloth. 



Some women of the lower class wear drawers (Sootun), but ladies who 

 are behind the curtain and do not quit their chamber, wear petticoats 

 confined at the waist with a string. Cotton drawers are sometimes striped 

 red, made full to the knee, and tight below it, leaving an opening scarcely 

 wide enough to admit the foot, and falling under the heels. 



Their body is cased in a sort of spencer or boddice with short tight 

 sleeves : it reaches to the waist and is tied above and below the bosom 

 with strings, leaving the back exposed. The spencer is dyed brown, 

 red, or dark blue, and sometimes prettily worked and spotted with 

 coloured silks and covered with talc spangles fixed on their leaden me- 

 dallsion, which are also used to decorate mantles and petticoats. They 

 are put on with gum and other adhesive substances. 



The following list exhibits the wearing apparel and its cost, of a land- 

 holder of the middle class, and of Government officers, in Kbyrpoor. 



