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While the house symbolizes the cover for the community, the clothes represent the cover for the individual. It is a presentation of the way how someone sees him- or herself. Clothing is not only protection against the heat and cold, but it functions as a marker of difference, too.
It has to be considered, that not only religious traditions determine the different clothing styles but ecological, economic and regional circumstances as well. The shirit for example is a useful cloth for the hot climate of the lowlands where most of the inhabitants are Muslims. On the other hand the white cotton clothes are more typical of the highland Christians. Muslims living in the highlands wear them too, but in a different way.
An exception is the clothing of religious experts. While the Islamic regulation forbade Muslims to wear expensive and stunning clothes, the shining clothes of priests in Christianity is a well-known feature of their position in religion.
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