Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
India Fashion. Coiffures, Hats, Head-dresses. The Feminin Costume of the World. Coiffures, Hats, Head-dresses. Part VII. India. Plate 7. The Fascination of the Indian Costumes. Description of Plate 7. 1.… Read More
The motifs show costumes of the Ottoman court during the reign of Mahmoud II. Elbicei Atika was the name of a costume museum in Constantinople, originally located in the armoury of the Seraglio.
Chinese wife with bound feet, 1891. More:Chinese Pagoda, Kwangtung Province, on the right… 1870 A Chinese comedian who portrayed an enraged military officer 1793 Ornamentation in Chinese porcelain painting. 1912… Read More
Basch Tshaousch. Costumes of the Ottoman Court, 1850. Various Ottoman functionaries and military personnel in their traditional costumes. More:Costume Iman of Turkey, Ottoman Empire 1843. Ottoman Empire A Usher at… Read More
Bach Tchohadar, Silihtar Aga, Peik, Solak. Ottoman Empire 1856. Various Ottoman functionaries and military personnel in their traditional costumes. More:The Kislar Aga, or first Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem. Ottoman… Read More
The native opium grown in China, is generally considered the most inferior, and the Indian opium, especially Malwa and Patna, the best.
THE GRAND SEIGNEUR, taken from VIEN’S CARAVANNE, a book which represents the Dresses in a Turkish Masquerade given by the Pensioners of the French Academy at Rome, in the Year… Read More
Marquis Dufferin Ava with Armenian refugees at the hospital at Varna, Bulgaria 1896. More:Costumes of Georgian, Circassian and Armenian Races. 19th Century Traditional Armenian costumes 1850s. 1850 Armenian merchant costume.… Read More
Habit of the Sultaness Queen in 1749. La Sultane Reine. Consort of the Ottoman sultan. THE SULTANESS QUEEN, from VIEN’S CARAVANE *. The Habit of the Women, like that of… Read More
THE DYING COOLIE 1897. More:Pilgrimages and the sacred hills of Buddhism in China. China China. The Empress. A concubine and a servant. Furniture. 19th Century China Jesuit missionary costume. 1843… Read More
