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DETAIL OF MINIATURE SHOWING THE WAY THE CLOTH
STOCKINGS WERE HELD UP

PERSIAN PRINCESS WEARING A DRESS IN A FIGURED TEX-
TILE. FROM "MARTINI PERSIAN MINIATURES"

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PERSIAN DANCING GIRL

from their turbans and handing them to his royal
master who would produce them at embarrassing
moments. In the miniature from the Goloubew
collection, in the Boston Museum, the prince is
wearing a Safavid turban which was worn quite
continuously during the reign of that dynasty.
This turban was wound over a pointed cap and
had projecting ends. Shah Abbas is described as
wearing on his head, "a cappe with a sharpe end
of half a yard long, standing upright of rich cloth
of gold wrapped about with a piece of Indian silk
of twentie yards long."

The men's costume was completed by slippers
and cloth stockings to the knee, or soft leather
boots with pointed toes and heels like our modern
French heels.

Trousers were worn by both men and women.
In fact, they were more a feature of the women's
dress than of the men's. The beautiful diagonally
striped pieces of brocade, called diets Persanes,
are nothing more than sixteenth-century panta-
lets, from which our grandmothers got their inspi-

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FEBRUARY 1925