[Ansteorra-MiddleEastern] What to wear? Anyone have any ME garb pictures?

[AlKudsi at aol.com]

Best source I know of is Jennifer Scarce's book, Women's Costume of the Near 
and Middle East, which has some photos of extant clothing (both men and 
women's).  As she is a curator of the Royal Museum of Scotland, with a specialty in 
Near and Middle Eastern culture, I rank her research as pretty good.  I will 
admit most of her stuff is post period, but then, I've made an unofficial study 
and found that several 9th century Egyptian boy's tunics (pages 118 and 120) 
are almost identical to the early 20th century folk dresses from the Holy 
Lands.  Best of all, she has quotes from period letters and travelogues that 
describe the costumes, which is helpful, too.  I've done the 9th century tunic with 
minor modifications to the shapes of the arms to match the illustrations and 
minatures for several years, and find it a comfortable, relatively easy 
costume to make.  I think it is pretty good, but then, my stuff is earlier period 
(12th century) and not Turkish, which is where most of the ME personas I've seen 
have drawn their inspiration from most.

HL Saqra al-Kudsi
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