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Victory Day of Bangladesh
On 16 December Bangladesh keeps its Victory Day, with sarees, flags and scarves in red and green.
What is worn for Victory Day of Bangladesh
Victory Day, 16 December, marks the surrender in Dhaka in 1971 that ended the Liberation War and brought Bangladesh into being. It is a national holiday with parades, wreath laying at the National Martyrs' Memorial at Savar and flags on every roof. People wear the colours of the flag, red and green. Women wear sarees or other clothes in green with a red border, or a red saree with green, in cotton, silk or jamdani, and children paint their faces. Many wear red and green badges and scarves. There are no traditional rites for the dress, but the saree is a common choice for official events, and the schools mark the day with songs.
The sarees
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Victory Day (Bangladesh)" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Jamdani: Salim_Khandoker, CC0, source
- Tangail saree: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source