Meitei clothing

Meitei clothing, or Meitei attire, or Meitei costumes, or Meitei dresses, or Meitei dressing, or Meitei fabrics, or Meitei garments, or Meitei robes, or Meitei textiles (Meitei: Phee/Phi), refer to the traditional clothes of Meitei cultural heritage of Manipur as well as Assam, Bangladesh, Meghalaya, Myanmar (Burma), Nagaland, Tripura, etc.

Regarding men's clothing of Hindustan, British officer Colonel McCulloch stated, “the Munniporees far surpass the people to the west in the cleanliness of their garments”, which is recorded in the 1908 book "The Meitheis", authored by Thomas Callan Hodson.

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