What we used to be

Maldives is an entirely different place if you compare it now with what it used to be around 50 years back. The traditions were much different and defined . Nowadays , you see Maldivians with a more modern style of clothing and behavior and the traditional dress form can be seldom seen.   Men used to wear the mundu , a sheet of rectangular clothe worn neatly like a towel around the waist.

The women used to wear a set of dresses called the "Dhivehi Hedhun" , meaning the Maldivian Dress.(originality).

You won't see people wearing these dresses anywhere in the Maldives very often , while this was the normal dress code for the people back then. 

Maldivians nowadays wear casual clothing like T-shirts , Jeans , Shorts not unlike the rest of the world. The majority of the women wear a "buruga" or occasionally a veil that covers the face , hence called "moonu buruga" ( meaning face buruga ) .

The art of Boduberu is also , greatly affected by the modern world.  Nowadays , people play more of modern songs and tunes and even the dance has been modernized .  

Parents and grandparents , (mostly from the islands) , are the mostly know people who knew what it was like to live in those good old days. No traffic , no fear of walking  down a street alone and not much crime. In those days , education was tough , though both girls and boys went to school. They were taught up to grade 7 by the time my mother was in school , and gradually it went on , until now , where the education system is not unlike other countries.