Afghans warriors colours

[redzed]

I have some rather spiffy Foundry Hill Tribesmen & Indians, which I'll be using as Afghans, but I'm stuck on the colourings that were used.
Any help please?

[Shipka]

Dirty white, differing shades of grey or dark blue..it is work googling the different tribes as there were some variations that were distinct.

[Hammers]

I have a few sources, and white and off-white are indeed the overall basic colours of turbans, shirts and trousers. Browns are good for coats. We all want to add a bit of splash and blue and red (esp. for Wazir pathans) will work. For richer chieftains, merchants and such you an add much bolder colours as they could afford silks, embroideries and patterned cloth.

[Will Bailie]

Modern Pashtun men do not wear bright colours.  With modern dyes and fabrics, they will wear the full range of pastels (even pink!) but never bright colours like red.  I have a couple of red shirts that I wore once, then put away - bright colours are associated with women here.  Off-whites, browns, light blues, light and dark greens (but no lime!), black, khaki and similar shades.  White only for those who can count on not getting dirty. 

Not sure how much current trends translate to the nineteenth century, but I can't paint bright colours on Afghans any more!

[CPT Shanks]

Good call Will, I also recall a certain fastidiousnous with being clean to include clothes. Of course you can't paint body odor which is in a different category all its own, but they are generally clean. Interesting youmention the pastels too, I would say yes to that also. I remember a lot of pale blues and light orange or green. but no real deep colors except for vests or turbans.
P.S. stay safe Will

[Will Bailie]

OK - let's see if this works...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4194695&l=7531469235&id=727591651

OK - I'm not smart enough to get the photo to show, so you'll have to click on the link.

Photo shows a group of modern Pashtuns - mostly labourers.  Gives a good sense of typical colours worn.

CPT - thanks for the good thoughts, I am outta here in less than a week.