Originally posted by: history_geek
@lizzy2012
yup.
Got it..
Roses..kashmir...
I was shocked...that after wearing so much heavy..attire wid jewellery...how they carried al dat stuff.
But yes seriously about jo's dress yesterday...though i was again perplexed seeing wht she is wearing...but today got something of the same type...
In humayun nama..on..page-127...
Gulbadan begum explains tht..type of dress.
It is NOT from Arabian Nights LOL as many forum friends are claiming.LOL.
Such dresses existed called--> "nimtaana", "karatiji"...
what sort of names r they..?
Also a gown type dress did exist, which u quoted earlier..if am not wrong than that dress is called 'Evening Dew' or shabnam/ Dhaka ka Malmal.this came from Dacca(Dhaka, Bangladesh.)..
Rest thngs cnt b quoted here.in public interest...
:)
Yeah exactly,I referred to no specifics here as all of them would be censored in public interests by the censor board of the forum.😆the evening clothes were made of material Dhaka malmal called shabnam..
Abu fazl lists some flowers used in the harem for extracting perfume and use of skin ointments as-
Sewti,mogra,champa juhi,molsari,nargis,kewra ,ratan manjari,kaner ,gulab..
Abu fazl tells us that the mughal empire imported silks from China and Persia.he says that material like kimkhab,katan,tafta,ambari,tasser and makhmal were imported from Europe,Turkey,Portugal,Herat etc.so one can the opulence of the mughal empire through this..it is also said that no royal lady repeats her dresses..I was amazed..
Edited by Lizzy2012 - 11 years ago
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