The most extraordinary dress was worn by the Padaung women, a kilt and Putties of dark cloth, with round the hips and upper part of kilt, many rings of thin black lacquered cane; round the neck were so many brass curtain-rings of graduated circumference, narrowing from the chest to the ear, and so many of them that the neck had become so elongated that the head either actually was dwarfed or seemed to be so small as to be quite out of proportion to the body.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
The old ladies in tall blue serge turbans and tunics and Putties of the same colour rather struck me-they are Shans from the East-with little shrewd twinkling black eyes, short noses and a gentle expression, and that break in the eyebrow, which I think characteristic of a certain dark Celtic type.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
23. Socks, according to taste-very few knickerbocker stockings need be taken, as Putties are cheap and usual in Srinagar.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne