Daura-Suruwal
Sign in to savealt=The Daura-Suruwal, the national dress of Nepal|thumb|503x503px|The Daura-Suruwal, the national dress of Nepal Daura-Suruwal (दौरा सुरुवाल) is one of the national outfit of Nepalese men. The Daura is a variant of the Kurta and is the upper garment, the Suruwal is the trouser. The coat was added to the costume by Jang Bahadur Rana, a prime minister of Nepal in the 19th century. The outfit is also popular in Darjeeling in neighbouring India amongst people of Indian Gorkha origin.
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alt=The Daura-Suruwal, the national dress of Nepal|thumb|503x503px|The Daura-Suruwal, the national dress of Nepal Daura-Suruwal (दौरा सुरुवाल) is one of the national outfit of Nepalese men. The Daura is a variant of the Kurta and is the upper garment, the Suruwal is the trouser. The coat was added to the costume by Jang Bahadur Rana, a prime minister of Nepal in the 19th century. The outfit is also popular in Darjeeling in neighbouring India amongst people of Indian Gorkha origin.
==Style== In Nepal, the traditional male dress, which is also the national dress, is the Nepali shirt called daura and suruwal () or daura-suruwal suit. According to Hussein (2018), "the daura is a closed-neck shirt with five pleats and eight strings that serve to tie it around the body".
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