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A Kebaya is a traditional blouse-dress combination worn by women in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Burma, Singapore, southern Thailand. It is sometimes made from sheer material and usually worn with a sarong or batik kain panjang, or other traditional woven garment such as ikat, songket with a colorful motif. |  |
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 | In Morocco kaftans are only worn by women, and are substantially different from their Turkish counterpart, see Takshita. The kaftan is the original Moroccan dress. It can be dressy casual to extremely formal (similar to a western dress) depending on the materials used. They can be worn at dinner parties, baby showers, engagement parties and weddings. |
In South East Asia, batik kaftans are produced for cool floaty feeling in hot sweltering heat of the tropical weather. While batik is very acid fast, numerous kind of fabrics are used ranging from silk to viscose. Florals and abstract designs heavily influence the kaftans from this region. |  |
 | In West Africa, a kaftan is a pullover robe. In French, this robe is called a boubou. Kaftans are worn by both men and women.[3] In West Africa, the female robe is called a kaftan or a boubou, and the male robe is the Senegalese kaftan. |
