Filstrup C., Merrill J. The Turban. A History from East to West 2025
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As newly-weds we travelled to Iran to teach in an international school. Our travels began in 1969, and outside the modern part of Tehran, where we lived and taught, the country was exotic, especially in art, music and architecture. We were attracted to the colours, fabrics and styles of clothing, and saw how they were a source of the hippie togs then in fashion in the West. We could even buy sheepskin vests and wear them back home. We also wore horsemen boots, soft wool robes, scarves embroidered with metallic and silk thread, and baggy pants. For Jane a chador was de rigueur in some localities, but more captivating were the gorgeous dresses of indigenous women in western Iran. We developed an aesthetic that was already being experimented with back home