# Canadian wants to wear a Kandoora - should he?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 26, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wants-to-wear-a-kandoora-should-he/590354 "2011-07-26T03:30:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wants-to-wear-a-kandoora-should-he/590354/1 "2011-07-26T03:30:23Z")

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Or Khandura or Kandora. However it’s spelt.

Those white Arab man dresses they wear in the Emirates. They look really comfy, especially on hot summer days.

I’m white-ish, but could pass for Middle Eastern and have been mistaken for Lebanese before. Wearing that would probably make me stand out like a sore thumb here.

Would it be offensive to people from that part of the world if I tried wearing one of those, either here or on a trip to the UAE? Does it have any **overt** religious implications?

Just idly curious, is all. Saw a buddy’s vaycay photo from Dubai, was a bit jealous of his threads. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wants-to-wear-a-kandoora-should-he/590354/2 "2011-07-26T03:52:05Z")

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My Kuwaiti friend calls it a dishdasha. [Anyways, here’s the wikipedia article.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawb)

I was actually going to post a similar thread, to wit:

Is there any kind of robe-like garment that a white guy in Jersey City can get away with wearing? I could do a dishdasha or a monk’s robe. It all looks good to me.