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They wear it absolutely not. If a virgin marries, she wears what is called in their custom a thobe, which is a sheet that a woman wraps around herself. This is according to the status of people in wealth and poverty. The poor wear their thobes from takli and the wealthy from shattur, cotton, or tikko, and qadani and bint. It is not made of silk or jaha. As for the women's jewelry, they wear a belt, which is made of gold for the wealthy, silver for the middle class, and for the poor. It is of two types: halq and shunnuki. The halq is a ring with a notch in it, and this notch is where a coral bead is placed. This is its shape. The shunnuka is a ring, half of which is thick and half is thin, like a thorn. They place four coral beads in it, with a gold bead between them, or three beads, one of which is gold. The thick end has a square bead at its tip. This is its shape. And they wear earrings, like earrings made of silver, weighing half a ratl each. And three, if they are.

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