Most people were too poor to protect themselves properly from the ravages of the elements: a simple cloth wrapped around the midriff left the men naked and vulnerable from the waist up. They had no shoes or head coverings and the majority, particularly the bedouin, wore their hair long to shield their necks from the burning rays of the sun, a style which changed only in the 19605 with the adoption of the gutra and agal as the national headdress.
A traveller who visited the area in the late igoos had this to say of the local dress: "the inhabitants walk around with a. piece of cloth around their -waist, naked from the waist up with no shoes and nothing to cover their heads, armed with a spear, a sword or an antiquated gun."
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