Toego

{{short description|Short jacket-like garment worn over a kira by women in Bhutan}}

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A toego or tego ({{langx|dz|སྟོད་གོ་}}, {{bo|w=stod go}}; Roman Dzongkha: tög°o. Sometimes also romanised tögo) is a long-sleeved, short jacket-like garment worn over a kira by women in Bhutan.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Modern Asia: China-India relations to Hyogo |volume=2 |series=Encyclopedia of Modern Asia |first1=David |last1=Levinson |first2=Karen |last2=Christensen |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=2002 |pages=104–105 |isbn=0-684-31243-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jFQYAAAAIAAJ |accessdate=2011-10-15}}{{cite web |url=http://www.bhutanobserver.bt/bhutan%E2%80%99s-queen-home/ |title=Bhutan's New Queen Is at Home |first1=Tandin |last1=Pem |first2=Jigme |last2=Wangchuk |publisher=Bhutan Observer online |date=2011-10-14 |accessdate=2011-10-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121064325/http://www.bhutanobserver.bt/bhutan%E2%80%99s-queen-home/ |archivedate=2012-01-21 }}{{cite book|title=Bhutan |series=Country Guides |first1=Lindsay |last1=Brown |first2=Stan |last2=Armington |edition=3 |publisher=Lonely Planet |year=2007 |page=50 |isbn=1-74059-529-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-L8NUlW_QgC |accessdate=2011-10-15}}{{cite book|title=Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth |first=Lisa |last=Napoli |publisher=Random House Digital |year=2011 |isbn=0-307-45302-2 |page=137 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38zmcLtN-GEC |accessdate=2011-10-15}} The toego is thus part of the national dress of Bhutan required by the driglam namzha along with the kira, the wonju and the rachu.

Both women and men in Bhutan wear the tego under the gho and over the kira.{{cite web|title=Thunder Dragon Textiles from Bhutan: the Bartholomew Collection |first=Mark |last=Bartholomew |publisher=Shikōsha |year=1985 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQRKAQAAIAAJ |accessdate=2011-10-16}}