Sikh Turban Style

[Tony]

Fateh . .. . . .

Paag / Turban is a key Symbol for sikhs. We all know from history that almost all men used to wear paag in the olden days regarless of religion.

I have been giving it some though and been looking at how the paag has evaluated within the Sikh community/religion.

If we look at certain sects within sikhism they are still going for the traditional style of such as the rounded style. However the general style of paag has changed to more of what we see in Panjab today.

My comments and question here is:

How come the other communities e.g Middle East still have the traditional way of tying the paag where as we as in Sikhs have taken and modified the style of it

Just thinking out loud as to what would have triggered this off!

Fateh . . . . ...

[JarnailS]

Fateh . .. . . .

Paag / Turban is a key Symbol for sikhs. We all know from history that almost all men used to wear paag in the olden days regarless of religion.

I have been giving it some though and been looking at how the paag has evaluated within the Sikh community/religion.

If we look at certain sects within sikhism they are still going for the traditional style of such as the rounded style. However the general style of paag has changed to more of what we see in Panjab today.

My comments and question here is:

How come the other communities e.g Middle East still have the traditional way of tying the paag where as we as in Sikhs have taken and modified the style of it

Just thinking out loud as to what would have triggered this off!

Fateh . . . . ...

wjkk wjkf

the style came from the requirement. we, as a sikh, wear turban because it is our requirement where as others wear it as a need.

for an example... people in hot countries i.e. sahara desert, they need to protect their head from sun, thats the reason they wrap their head with a cloth. their clothe should not be called turban or pagg as they dont respect it as a sikh respects his/her turban.

no matter what the whether is or where sikh lives, he/she should havea turban on their head, hence the style comes in play. this is due to the change in the social life, work and environment that we live it.

in the past, when our elders moved to different countries, they all used to work 16-20 hrs a day and they wanted to save every single minute by reducing the time that they spend on their turbans, to do this, they developed "kenya style" turban.

nihang singh used to fight, they had their strong style pagg.

hope you get the glance of why there is a change in style.....

on the other hand, ppls in middle east, desert etc. only have one style, because all they want is to protect their head from sun and nothing else.

bhul chuk maaf

wjkk wjkf

[GurpreetKaur]

Im glas someelse said it because i was thinking about this recently aswel...ive seen so many types of dastaars.

confession....when i was small...i mean really small like 3 i used to called he indian style dastaar and space ship dastaar =]

[Amrit Kaur Khalsa]

I used to call the kenyan style pagh (starched or not starched) a samosa pagh Which wasn't very clever coz every kesdhari man in my family wears one - including my dad :s

[GurpreetKaur]

samosa! haha but ive never seen a keshdari female with a african style dastaar =S

[Amrit Kaur Khalsa]

^^ No female in my family wears a dastaar anywayz, samosa or not.