The Kuwaiti Dishdasha
Posted by Kaleidoscope on October 30, 2005
written by: Tantalize
Elongated in form like women’s dress. Headdressed like women’s hair. It flows without binding. It loosens without constricting. It emasculates, yet feminizes in subliminal disguise. It is a walking self-sufficient air-conditioning.
It sculpts the body into an animated celebrity by jacking up the chest, broadening the shoulders, 
tucking away the belly, lacing any head baldness, and accentuating the skin color, goatee and dark eyes on the face. It is a traditional cosmetic surgery for a man’s man as well as a modern advertising alter-ego: It’s a walking Kuwaiti penis ready for invitation.
Fresh, clean, and starched as a white-walking sexual vehicle, it amuses Arab tradition, and confuses Islamic execution. When the Kuwaiti dishdasha catwalks amidst women, it infuses female seduction; unleashes their wild and predatory female savagery. Women mentally fornicate, if not physically cuckold, or outright subconsciously undress their femininity into mere nakedness; into fantasy: into a fairytale orgy.
Thus, it transcends gender equality because it lends sensual inequality to women who have come to adore its luscious, yet scrumptious, yet lascivious material ambuguity. The ambivalent swagger. The stiff but upright physique. It comes towards in cool mania but dressed as weaponry. It wants to missile itself into you. It wants to confuse and allure you. Can’t you hear the “dishhhhhh” in its shasha (screen). Ahhhhhh; the ecstasy. The agony. The erotic liquidity.
The dishdasha is the model Kuwaiti man tucked under tightly 
woven cotton and ornate bodily knitting with unseen arabesques. Having one come your way steals your focus. Having one surround you brightens your own emphasis. Making love underneath it escalates tenderness and loosens unknown inhibitions.
It comments and compliments. It softens and broadens. It fascinates and sensually aggregates. It’s culture and attitude in one: CULTURETUDE!
[When was the last time you picked or were picked up by one?]
© TANTALIZE 2005
October 29, 2005 at 7:42 pm
The dishdasha is much more seductive than any business suit to the average rood-blooded Kuwaiti woman. It’s the perfect garb for a devil dressed as an angel in white!
P.S. Tantalize… Stop hogging the blog. Yes, you’re a brilliant writer but give the rest of us a chance, will ya?! LOL
October 29, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Mushmushi:
Once you submit something new, then I won’t have to “hog” the blog, will I? Instead of nagging, create something! LOL
;^)
October 29, 2005 at 8:12 pm
DISSSSHHHH dasha a7san shay in hot summer days ..il denya 7ar and you can’t stand your own skin and this handsome man comes along with his neat cold fresh dishdasha with his yummy smell ,,, cool breez in hot days.
ya3ny.. dishdasha brings great hug in summer
picked by what?
October 29, 2005 at 8:53 pm
Dishdassha + starched, Bokhoor scented gitrah + 3igal + cold winter night= maximum orgasm
October 30, 2005 at 2:03 am
ayya: how about you make it summer afternoon … or noon it self
October 30, 2005 at 2:07 am
The dishdasha never actually attracted me nor seduced me. I gues it’s not my type! Nevertheless, I had a great laugh with my girl-friends once when we spotted a guy coming down the stairs, in the bright light of the day, all our eys caught the lower part of his dishdasha that was transparent and we could all see his p&%&$ clearly. He had a big dark one
October 30, 2005 at 3:26 am
I never liked dishdashah it is a way of hiding the ugly parts of a man’s body. It does not seduce me at all. sorry
October 30, 2005 at 4:10 am
heh i must say.. im so longing for a dishdasha right now
ive even swore that when im back ill just throw away all my clothes and stick to them
btw personally i can count 3 ‘types of tafseel deshdasha’ ..
October 30, 2005 at 8:40 am
To most Western girls dishdasha (thob… in Qatar) is weird. To me - it’s sooooooo sexy! Especially if the guy wears it well. It’s dreadful to see low neck vests under it, or a too-soft material that clings a bit too much. Otherwise, it’s just too yummy!
=^..^=
PS. Not in the wind, it isn’t, lol.
October 30, 2005 at 12:21 pm
Personally, I think the dishdasha is unattractive and too feminine. It’s bland in style and monotonous in color and texture. But hey, some women orgasmicize over it.
October 30, 2005 at 12:56 pm
tantalize
feminine? u mean because of the resemblance of a woman’s one piece dress in our day and time?
not that i agree! definitely not
October 30, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Qatar Cat Welcome to our Kuwaiti (and beyond) Kaleidoscope. You are welcome to join this collective blog of creative writers and thinkers by writing a piece you deem worthy. Thank you for dropping by all the way from Qatar.
October 30, 2005 at 7:10 pm
Temetwir:
Yes because of the resemblance but also because the way it hangs when it moves and the way it is worn by many men. It has very effeminate qualities; or even very androgynous ones. It befits many of the Kuwaiti men who wear it who seem if not are bisexual.
We all have our opinions.
October 30, 2005 at 9:52 pm
I like the dishdasha. but to me, men who wear dishdashas all look like, you cant tell whos who. I was with my dad the other day and I lost him. I thought to myself, the whole place is full of walking dishdashas and he’s wearing one, now what?
a ‘3abaya’ is like a dishdasha.
October 30, 2005 at 11:29 pm
tantalize why do i get the feeling ur talking about one MAJOR ‘type’ of deshadeesh out of the three i have in mind
hope interesting to say the least, cant differentiate between deshadeesh just as (most) men cant differentiate between baraagi3 heh
sounds fair
October 31, 2005 at 10:51 am
A dishdasha is like any other costume or form of attire; how good it looks depends on its quality, your tailor’s expertise, and the overall look (clean, no holes, no stains, lightly starched, ironed properly).
To complement the well-tailored dishdasha, one must don the ghutra in a fashion suitable to the occasion. If the man is wearing shoes, they must be clean and well-polished. If he wears sandals, then the feet must be clean - not grey and cracked.
As for recognizing someone in a dishdasha, it is easy to do so from the man’s overall form and posture, and nesfat el ghutrah. I can do that pretty much like any Bedouin man can recognize his woman in a sea of barage3
The dishdasha has to be the most alluring mode of attire for a Kuwaiti/Gulf man. It is masculine, attractive, and gives me butterflies.
And Tantalyze I love your choice of words in your description regardless of whether you like dishdashas or not.
October 31, 2005 at 12:15 pm
Eclectic (and others) - thank you for the warm welcome. I’ve been a reader of Kaleidoscope for a while and I would be honoured to try my hand at creative writing with you all. Add a little of Western - Qatari perspective :^)
=^..^=
October 31, 2005 at 12:20 pm
Temetwir: I meant the dishdasha in general: the form and overall design. I didn’t mean the explicit details attached to each and every one.
Jewaira: Why thank you for the compliment.I just wanted to present the dishdasha in a different manner by exploiting how many may perceive it as being, or not being for that matter.
October 31, 2005 at 5:32 pm
Nothing says MAN like a pair of dusty bair feet, a sandy brown mkasar, and a dishdasha pulled up and knotted around the waist.
I miss watching boys play football in the bara7a.
March 20, 2006 at 5:25 pm
wow dishdasha is the best for the men and boys! at eid al edha they look realy sexy in the dishdasha.
March 31, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Pls tell me why arab men where a dishdasha i need to know for my school project!!
June 9, 2006 at 1:33 am
I have to say this, that what makes me close my eyes, and “hummmm” internally, to myself is when a tall Kuwaiti man walks past me, in his dishdasha and headress (don’t know the word for it), and he smells soooo good and clean. Ahhh! I relish those moments.
He comes off as sexy, confident, and as one who really takes pride in taking care of himself.
This coming from a kuwaiti woman who was born and raised outside of Kuwait, but now lives here.
PS: I have to blog about this now. LOL
June 9, 2006 at 11:32 am
I bet! That’s why I wrote about it in a sexually-infused manner. ;^)
July 4, 2006 at 6:00 am
I will the dishdasha and headress, and Igal, and white or black sandals, and since I will never wear western clothing, because it’s un islamic, I think that the dishdasha is t he most comfortbable dress to wear, and my wife who wears the nigab makes sure that my white gowns Dishdashas are neatly pressed and looks great.
July 5, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Omar: That’s good to hear. Thanks for expressing your own views.
February 25, 2007 at 1:20 am
Hi all…
I’m a surfer from far north country - Czechia, from a small , ancient town located half of hundred kilometres south from Prague…
…surfing to find out some nice new clothes, or some designs that could be used by chief of my crew… She’s quite good in making nice clothes only by pictures…
…You now - our culture is little drained out of fantasy, so some ppl are turning back into history, into realms of fantasy games and books and into diferent cultures…
…and well, I found out, that clothes for ladies are sometimes real artworks in your culture…
It’s little long and “votary-shaped”, but as home-clothes it’s ok…
For example - http://www.jelbab.com/images/products/Khaleji_Abaya_F22051148_201.jpg - only that headcover is crapy and should be transformed in a short cloak and some upgrades of proporcionality should be made to point out wearers breast…
But when one is looking for something in same quality for oneself…
Well… That is a problem… Usually only white or gray or similar -plain, one-colored stuff with no art-work at all…
…in fact - what is on picture in this article is something, that is given to dead bodies, before they’re put in some better clothes for funeral…
…it’s so plain, so common, so boring…good only for dead poor people, who cannot have something expensive…
Noone in this area will going around wearing something that looking like bed sheet…
If one is looking for something more fancy - nothing could be found…
So I want to know - it’s hidden somewhere I can’t find my way without some arabian language, or men of arabian, resp. islamic culture have no clothing fantasy…?
You can mail on Loneshadow(at)seznam.cz
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