Travels into the Levant. • ' Part II, 
Girdle ; and from the Girdle downward it grows wider and wider, fo that 
it looks like a Bell below, Handing out round as if it had a ring of Iron in 
it, and that becaufe of the Cotton it is fiuîFed with. The fleeves fir clofe to 
the Arm, but are much longer, and therefore they pleat them that they may 
not hang over the Wrifts: Many have them clofe at the Wriil and without 
a Button ; but fuch as would be more at their eafè ufè Buttons, and at pre- 
fent, many both Verfians and Armenians^ make ufe of this convenience which 
they have learnt.from the Francks; and indeed, by that means the fleeve is 
fafl-ened clofe at the Wrift, and hinders the Wind from getting in. Thefe 
Cabas commonly are of Cloath painted with one Colour onely, Perfons of 
Quality wear them alfo many times of Satin or Zerbaft , which is the Bro- 
cart of Fer fin, and in the Summer many have them of Aladgia, and not 
The Girdle of quilted. This Veil is girt with two Girdles, of which the firft, which is the 
die Velt. broadeft and longeft, is a kind of fluff made purpofely in form of Brocart, 
Ibme of Silk with Gold, and others onely of Silk, butPerfons of Quality have 
them always with Gold : They double it into many plies, till it be but four 
or five Fingers broad, and they bring it three or four times about their Body. 
The other is fhorter and narrower, and is commonly of Goats or Camels 
hair, and onely of one Colour ; they fold it till it be no more but three Fin- 
gers broad at moft, and it is put over the other, fo that it covers but part of 
its breadth; and therefore it goes but twice round the Body, fo that both 
are feen. 
Over the Caba they put a Jufi a Cor of Cloath, which in the Summer-time 
wants fleeves and fur, and reaches down onely to the middle of the Thigh ; 
Courdy a clofe they call that Garment Courdy : In the Spring and Autumn it is furred; but 
bodied Coat, Winter they make it with clofe fleeves, and fb long that it reaches down to 
Cadebis. the Calf of the Leg, and they call it Cadebis : It is not buttoned before, 
though it hath commonly fix long buttons on the one fide, and as many loops 
of the fame fafhion on the other, but that is onely for ornament, and the 
Courdis have none. This Jufi a cor is in the Winter commonly lined with 
Fur ; the richer fort do it with Sable, the meaner content themfelves with 
Lamb-skin. Lamb-skin, which is very pretty ; for the Wool of it is long, finer than the 
foftefl hair, and all full of rings and curies no bigger than Spangles : They 
line their Courdis with another for, that has fhort wool, but rings in the 
fame manner ; round the Neck on the outfide, they put upon the fluff an 
ornament fix fingers broad, that comes down a foot length on each fide. 
Thefe Lamb-skins come from about Yezd and Kerman, at leafl: the firfl fort. 
Stockings. for thefè that have the fhort wool come from about Schiras. Their flockings 
are of Cloath very wide and all alike big; they reach up to the Knee, and 
are tied under it. 
Their fhoes are much like womens flippers ; the heel is above two Inches 
high, and no thicker than the heels of womens fhoes, and on them they put 
a little piece of Iron ; thefè fhoes are peaked, made commonly of Chagrine, 
and are moft ufually of green Colour, ( for any body may wear it in Ferfia ) 
or elfe Carnation: The fhoes are wornfo fhort, that all the heel almofl hangs 
out, and that the ftockings may not thereby be worn out, they few a piece 
of red Leather to the heel of the flocking ; neverthelefs, thefe fhoes or flip- 
pers flick clofe to the foot. 
Head-attire. The Ferfians cover their head with a little calot or fluff, over which they 
wreath a turban of white Cloath, and over that Cloath, a Turban flreaked 
with feveral Colours, which hath fo many cafts round, that it appears very 
big, and they put Cloath under it onely to make it the bigger. All, ( whe- 
ther they be Chriftians or Mahometans) wear thefè Turbans of what Colour 
they pleale, but always flreaked with feveral Colours, and fb men are not 
Turban. diftinguifhed by their Turbans, as in Turky, unlefs it be the Meullas who a- . 
lone wear them white. The rich have them embroadered with Gold and 
Silver, fo that one of thefe Turbans cofl feveral Tomans : The meaner fort 
of People wear long and fharp pointed Caps of white Felt, with a httle flit 
Cips. before and behind like Englifh Caps, and turn infide out in the fame manner, 
and many time they put a fbrry Turban about this Cap. Within doors 
rhey wear no turbans, but onely long pointed Caps, lined with Lamb-skin. 
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