Persian clothing

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Persian miniature paintings employ both vivid and muted colors for clothing. Persian men usually wore a full-length pants called Shalvar. Undergarments for men were limited to a pair of short pants, called zir-šalvar (literally “under-pants”).

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• Persian clothing
• 16th Century Persian Women's Clothing
• “A Concordance of Clothing Terms” Encyclypedia Iranica Online, 2004, pg. 870.