Book contents
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- Copyright page
- Contents for Volume I
- Figures for Volume I
- Maps for Volume I
- Table for Volume I
- Contributors for Volume I
- Preface
- 1 Global History in the History of Fashion
- Part I Multiple Origins of Fashion
- 2 Towards a History of Fashion Without Origins
- 3 Fashion in the Ancient World
- 4 Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300
- 5 Distinguishing Oneself
- 6 The Material Regulation of Fashion
- Part II Early Modern Global Entanglements
- Part III Many Worlds of Fashion
- Index
- References
6 - The Material Regulation of Fashion
Sumptuary Laws in the Early Modern World
from Part I - Multiple Origins of Fashion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2023
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- Copyright page
- Contents for Volume I
- Figures for Volume I
- Maps for Volume I
- Table for Volume I
- Contributors for Volume I
- Preface
- 1 Global History in the History of Fashion
- Part I Multiple Origins of Fashion
- 2 Towards a History of Fashion Without Origins
- 3 Fashion in the Ancient World
- 4 Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300
- 5 Distinguishing Oneself
- 6 The Material Regulation of Fashion
- Part II Early Modern Global Entanglements
- Part III Many Worlds of Fashion
- Index
- References
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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- The Cambridge Global History of FashionFrom Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century, pp. 148 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023