# Toego

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{{short description|Short jacket-like garment worn over a kira by women in Bhutan}}
[[Image:Bhutanese women at festival wearing Kira and Tego.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Bhutanese women wearing [kira](/source/kira_(Bhutan)) with tego]]
A '''toego''' or '''tego''' ({{langx|dz|སྟོད་གོ་}}, {{bo|w=stod go}}; [Roman Dzongkha](/source/Roman_Dzongkha): ''tög°o''. Sometimes also romanised '''tögo''') is a long-sleeved, short [jacket](/source/jacket)-like garment worn over a [kira](/source/kira_(Bhutan)) by [women in Bhutan](/source/women_in_Bhutan).<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Modern Asia: China-India relations to Hyogo |volume=2 |series=Encyclopedia of Modern Asia |first1=David |last1=Levinson |first2=Karen |last2=Christensen |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=2002 |pages=104–105 |isbn=0-684-31243-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jFQYAAAAIAAJ |accessdate=2011-10-15}}</ref><ref name=BO1>{{cite web |url=http://www.bhutanobserver.bt/bhutan%E2%80%99s-queen-home/ |title=Bhutan's New Queen Is at Home |first1=Tandin |last1=Pem |first2=Jigme |last2=Wangchuk |publisher=[Bhutan Observer](/source/Bhutan_Observer) online |date=2011-10-14 |accessdate=2011-10-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121064325/http://www.bhutanobserver.bt/bhutan%E2%80%99s-queen-home/ |archivedate=2012-01-21 }}</ref><ref name=LP>{{cite book|title=Bhutan |series=Country Guides |first1=Lindsay |last1=Brown |first2=Stan |last2=Armington |edition=3 |publisher=[Lonely Planet](/source/Lonely_Planet) |year=2007 |page=50 |isbn=1-74059-529-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-L8NUlW_QgC |accessdate=2011-10-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth |first=Lisa |last=Napoli |publisher=Random House Digital |year=2011 |isbn=0-307-45302-2 |page=137 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38zmcLtN-GEC |accessdate=2011-10-15}}</ref> The toego is thus part of the national dress of Bhutan required by the [driglam namzha](/source/driglam_namzha) along with the kira, the [wonju](/source/wonju_(Bhutan)) and the rachu.

Both women and men in Bhutan wear the tego under the [gho](/source/gho) and over the kira.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thunder Dragon Textiles from Bhutan: the Bartholomew Collection |first=Mark |last=Bartholomew |publisher=Shikōsha |year=1985 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQRKAQAAIAAJ |accessdate=2011-10-16}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Kho (costume)](/source/Kho_(costume))
*[Chuba](/source/Chuba)
*[Khata](/source/Khata)
*{{section link|Tibetan culture|Clothing}}

==References==
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