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  • 6 - The Material Regulation of Fashion

  • from Part I - Multiple Origins of Fashion
  • Edited by Christopher Breward, National Museums of Scotland, Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, Giorgio Riello, European University Institute, Florence
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
    Published online:
    04 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 148-190

  • Summary

    In early fourteenth-century Egypt a new fashion spread: women began wearing qamīş (loose robes) with sleeves up to three ells wide that could cost as much as several months of a worker’s salary. In 1350–1 the vizier ordered that such sleeves should be cut and that these garments should no longer be produced. It is said that images of women who had been executed for wearing the forbidden garment were posted on the ramparts of Cairo as a warning. Yet a generation later, in the 1390s, wide sleeves were back in fashion and the new vizier forbade them once again as visible signs of decadence.

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