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bottle greens, and dark blues, are the colours mostly worn. Red they 
dislike; and it is singular that this is a hue, which fashion seems to 
have discarded even in the countries far beyond the Northern and 
Eastern confines of Persia; for the merchants of Bokhara , who come 
down annually to Bushire to buy cloths, totally disregard scarlets, and 
for that colour will not give any thing like the price, which they will 
pay for others. 
Although the climate requires full as much clothing as that of 
Turkey, I did not find in my stay among them, that the Persians 
clothed themselves by any means so warmly as the Turks. As the 
cold increases, the Turk increases the number of his pelisses, till in the 
progress of the winter I have frequently seen a small and puny man ex¬ 
pand into a very robust and athletic figure: but the Persian’s wardrobe 
does not thus extend over him as the season advances. 
The following is a general catalogue of the articles of their dress :— 
1. The zeer jumah : a pair of very wide trowsers, either of red silk or 
blue cotton, reaching below the ancle, and fastened by a string which 
passes through the top, and is tied before. 2. The peer a hawn : a 
shirt generally of silk, which, going over the trowsers, reaches a few 
inches below the hips, and is fastened by two buttons over the top of 
the right shoulder. It goes close round the lower part of the neck, 
where it is sometimes ornamented by a ribband or thin cord of silk. 
The opening of the shirt extends to the bottom of the ribs. 3. The 
alcalock : a tight vest, made of chintz, and quilted with cotton, which 
ties at the side, and reaches as low as the thin part of the calf of the 
leg. It has sleeves extending to the wrist, but open from the elbow. 
4. The caba : which is a long vest descending to the ancle, but fitting 
tight to the body as far only as the hips: it then buttons at the 
side. The sleeves go over those of the alcalock , and from the elbow 
are closed by buttons only, that they may be opened thus far for the 
purpose of ablution, when the namaz or prayer is said. There is 
another species of caba , called the bagalee , which crosses over the 
breast, and fastens all down the side by a range of buttons to the hip. 
