Suea pat
The suea pat (Lao: ເສື້ອປັດ Lao pronunciation: [sɯ̏a.pát], Lanna: เสื้อปั๊ด Northern Thai pronunciation: [sɯ̋a.pát]) or suea pai (Lao: ເສື້ອປ້າຍ Lao pronunciation: [sɯ̏a.pâaj], Lanna: เสื้อป้าย Northern Thai pronunciation: [sɯ̋a.pa̋aj]) [1][2] is a type of shirt worn by women from different ethnic backgrounds in Laos and Northern Thailand and other areas in Southeast Asia. These ethnic groups typically include the Lao, the Tai Lue, and the Tai Yuan etc.
The suea pat is a long-sleeved shirt with no buttons. It is worn by wrapping the right side of the front panel of the shirt over the left side of the front panel, and the two panels are tied together via strings. Suea pats from Luang Prabang, Laos typically have large golden collars.
Etymology
The words "suea pat" and "suea pai" are made up of words of Tai origin. "Suea pat" and "suea pai" literally mean "wrapping shirt"; suea (Thai: เสื้อ, Lao: ເສື້ອ) means "shirt", while pat (Thai: ปัด, Lao: ປັດ) and pai (Thai: ป้าย, Lao: ປ້າຍ) mean "to wrap sideways, to smear."
In Laos
In present-day Laos, women wear suea pats to ceremonial events such as weddings.[3] Each year in Luang Prabang, the winner of the Miss Songkran contest who becomes the next Miss Songkran, or nang sangkhane (Lao: ນາງສັງຂານ Lao pronunciation: [náaŋ.sǎŋ.kʰǎan]), gets to wear a suea pat underneath a pha biang which is a scarf-like cloth that wraps diagonally from the lower right waist to the upper left shoulder.
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External links
- สอนตัดเสื้อปั๊ด ตัดก็ง่าย ใส่ก็งาม (Thai)
- เสื้อปั้ดจ้างของชนเผ่าไทลื้อ อำเภอทุ่งช้าง (Thai)
- ลื้อฟื้น...เสื้อปั๊ด ซิ้นตา (Thai)
- สืบวิถีนุ่ง-ห่ม พัสตราภรณ์โบราณถิ่นล้านนา (Thai)
- วัฒนธรรมผ้าเผ่าไท ในประเพณีแต่งงาน (Thai)
- ศูนย์สิ่งทอล้านนาไต Lanna Tai Textiles center (Thai)