Ministry of Commerce and Industry protects Omani costumes from deformities

Muscat: In cooperation with the craft industry, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is working on two standard specific projects for Dishdasha and Omani Kema.
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As the ministry seeks to protect the Omani costumes from deformities and to maintain the Omani identity, and in execution of the third article in the ministerial decision number 70/2015, banning import of some goods. It states that the import, designing the Omani traditional clothes or transgressing it, or modifying anything in it that harms the Omani identity, is banned.
The Directorate General of specifications and standards, through the circle of specification, worked on two specifications and standards projects for the national traditional costume for men, represented in Omani Dishdasha and Omani Kema, to maintain them as one of the means of Omani identity, and to protect them from any inputs that shall transgress this identity, in cooperation with the general authority for craft industry.
As for “the standard specification for the Omani Dishdasha”, the ministry has paid many field visits while working on this project, to many of experienced Dishdasha makers, and they hear from the elder to define the means used in Dishdasha parts. Specifications project turned to Omani Dishdasha types, according to Sultanate provinces, and the features of every type.
Now the project in its final stage, and hopefully, it will have its credence as specific standard before the end of 2016.