I randomly ran into a collection of recreations of Persian or Iranic women’s clothing from different eras, from ancient times to a few hundred years ago. Below are the five oldest outfits.
They seem to be images of modern interpretations based on artwork of various kinds: statuettes, carvings, reliefs, paintings, and drawings.
Aren’t they fascinating? The images clearly come from a print publication, but apart from that I unfortunately don’t have any source information.
I don’t know much about these eras and areas, but I can’t escape the impression that these recreations may be relatively old and, perhaps, not entirely reliable. For instance, the Sassanian dress seems very polyester-like (too shiny). On the other hand, a lot of the draping looks very plausible. It would be so interesting to read an analysis on each outfit by the researchers / creators.
I’ve long been into early history, specifically of textiles and clothing, usually the older the better. Sadly, it’s an area that we tend to have very spotty evidence. I’m so glad digitization and the Internet help get more information out to interested audiences. There are so many more sources and preserved fragments than many may realize, and now we get to see them!
Images found via Non-Western Historical Fashion on Tumblr.
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I love the Elam costume! But the first one looks very 1970s — which I would guess is the era when the reconstructions were made…..look at historical movie costumes, they are always informed by fashion current at the time the movie was made.
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Oh, yes, the Elam one is great. I’d be really interested in finding out how they made all those scales. You’re also right about the first one; very hippie 70s. And the headpiece looks quite odd (almost like a metal bread basket).
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