Traditional Cambodian Clothing, Culture and Lifestyle for Men

Traditional Cambodian Dress for Men

Men mostly always follow the typical wear: Cambodian men typically use cotton or silk shirts with short sleeves. And sometime they wear cotton trousers as well.

In the past, Cambodian men customarily wear a sarong A sarong create from a long fabric piece, which is commonly wrapped around the waist and worn by both men and women in South East Asia.

What is the main point that Cambodia men are different from other men around the world is Cambodian men they always cut a short hair and shave their mustache and beard every day to make their face look beautiful and clean. In the past the use a traditional shaving knife and right now they are updated to follow the updated technology recently by using modern electronic shavers like Braun Series 9 that is the best one in the market right now for some high class people.

They don't like to keep their mustache and beard like Indian men or some men who living in Muslim countries.

Cambodian men have many type dress to wear base on the occasion, event, time or any traditional party. And some time they wear the dress with different colors base on the day. Because they believe that color base on the day Monday, Tuesday, until Sunday are different colors will bring good luck and make them more proud to be Khmer or to be a high class people in the Khmer social.

Traditional Cambodian Culture for Men

In the past, Cambodian men they always follow the ancient people. Men go to study at pagoda and learn all Khmer culture there from the monks.

Most of them always have tattoo on their body. And those tattoo are all about the Khmer inscription that have different meaning. The reason that Cambodian men like to put tattoo on their body because they believe that those tattoo can help to make them stronger and handsome. And some tattoo they believe that it can protect them from any bad luck.

So we can say that tattoo is one of Khmer traditional culture for men as well.

Traditional Cambodian Lifestyle for Men

In the past, Cambodian men have very different lifestyle from now. Because now most men they are stop using the traditional lifestyle as before. They always wear and use the lifestyle from other countries even from dress.

They also like to wear t-shirt, short or long t-shirt and jean.