{{short description|Knee-length robe; national dress of men of Bhutan}} {{other uses}} [[File:Boys in Bhutan national dress.jpg|thumb|Bhutanese boys wearing ''gho'' at a festival in Punakha, November 2006]] [[File:King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (edit).jpg|thumb|Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan, wearing a gho and royal saffron kabney]] The '''gho''' or '''g'ô''' ({{langx|dz|བགོ་}}, {{IPA|dz|ɡ̊oː˨}})<ref>{{cite book|last1=Driem|first1=George van|title=Dzongkha = Rdoṅ-kha|date=1998|publisher=Research School, CNWS|location=Leiden|isbn=978-9057890024|page=74}}</ref> is the traditional and national dress for men in Bhutan. Introduced in the 17th century by Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, to give the Ngalop people a more distinctive identity, it is a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt known as the ''kera'' ({{langx|dz|སྐེད་རགས་|translit=sked rags}}).<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 |access-date=2011-10-15}}</ref><ref name=LP>{{cite book|title=Bhutan |series=Country Guides |first1=Lindsay |last1=Brown |first2=Stan |last2=Armington |edition=3 |publisher=Lonely Planet |year=2007 |pages=49–52, 80 |isbn=978-1-74059-529-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-L8NUlW_QgC |access-date=2011-10-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Thunder Dragon Textiles from Bhutan: the Bartholomew Collection |first=Mark |last=Bartholomew |publisher=Shikōsha |year=1985 |page=38 |isbn=9784879400147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQRKAQAAIAAJ |access-date=2011-10-16}}</ref> On festive occasions, it is worn with a kabney.
The government of Bhutan requires all men to wear the ''gho'' if they work in a government office or school. Men are also required to wear the ''gho'' on formal occasions. In its modern form, the law dates from 1989, but the driglam namzha dress code is much older.
The traditional dress for men is the gho, a knee-length robe tied with a handwoven belt, known as ''kera''. Under the gho, men wear a ''tego'', a white jacket with long, folded-back cuffs.<ref>[https://dailybhutan.com/article/the-different-types-of-ceremonial-scarves-in-bhutan Daily Bhutan]</ref>
In the film ''Travellers and Magicians'' by Khyentse Norbu, the main actor Tshewang Dendup wears a denim ''gho.'' This unique blue jean ''gho'' was made from eight metres of denim and is believed to be the only denim ''gho'' in existence.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Avieson |first=Bunty |title=Travellers & Magicians: the book of the making of the film |date=2011 |publisher=Prayer Flag Pictures |isbn=978-99936-625-0-1 |location=Thimphu}}</ref> This is one of many varieties of the ''gho'' depicted in Bhutanese film.
==See also== *Kira *Toego *Kabney *Kho (costume)
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