Sudanese women wear a traditional form of dress called the "toub", a long bolt of fabric, generally two meters wide and four-seven meters long. The toub's origins date back hundreds of years. In the late 18th century, prosperous merchants in Darfur clothed their wives and daughters in large swaths of imported linen, muslin and silk as a sign of wealth and prestige.
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