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The definition of the Mughal Jama is a side-fastening frock coat with a tight-fitting bodice, nipped-in waist, and flared skirt, reaching the knees. In many miniature figures and paintings, Akbar is seen wearing the Jama girded at the waist with a waistband, and he accompanies it with a small, short turban without a cap and a churidar paijama.
The Mughal Paintings depicted ladies wearing various outfits such as Peshwaj and heavy jewelry. [1] [7] [8] It was a famous costume in the 17th century for both Hindu and Muslim ladies. [9] Peshwaj was paired with Ekpatta. [10] [11] [12]
Mughal clothing refers to clothing developed by the Mughals in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries throughout the extent of their empire in the Indian subcontinent. Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire in South Asia. Noble Nobility is a social class normally ranked immediately below royalty and found in some societies that have a formal ...
The Mughal emperors wore ankle-length garments. The outfits during the reign of Babur and Humayun are more or less the same, i.e. qaba, jama, pirahan, jilucha, jiba and kasaba. Unlike the jama, which was a four-pointed long-coat the Qaba and takauchia were of a broad girth at the bottom.
Katzeb is a compound word.The Sanskrit word Kati means waist, and Zeb in Persian means adorn. Mughals wore it over the Jama (coat).The Katzeb is a girdle named by the third Mughal emperor Akbar who was very fashion enthusiastic and gave a new name to many contemporary costumes.
Mughal emperors and courtiers were wearing it over the Jama, fastened with a decorated piece of cloth, i.e., Katzeb around the waist area with loosely hanging ends. Farzi was one of the costumes given in Khilat (robes of honour) to the Mughal nobles and other courtiers. The coat was very much famous in the 17th century among the royals.
Mulboos khas was a special kind of mulmul cloth made for the King and used for Royal clothing in the Mughal Empire.The Mulboos khas was a kind of first-grade muslin exclusively manufactured in Royal Karkhanas (''Mulboos khas kootees'' [1]: 160 [2]) notedly in places like Dacca, Sonargaon, Jangalbaree.
Dancing woman wearing dupatta, detail from Kalpa Sutra manuscript, c.1300s. Early evidence of the dupatta can be traced to the Indus valley civilization, where the sculpture of a priest-king whose left shoulder is covered with some kind of a shawl-like scarf suggests that the use of the dupatta dates back to this early Indic culture.